The most comprehensive, up-to-date book on Salvadoran politics of the last twenty-five years.
Christine J. Wade is associate professor of political science and international studies at Washington College. She is the coauthor of Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change and Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle.
“Those who study El Salvador closely recognize more deeply the
limitations of the peace accords in transforming its politics,
economics, and society. This book does a fabulous job explaining
how the peace accords failed in several important ways primarily
because of the intransigence of local elites…Christine Wade has
produced the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on Salvadoran
politics of the last twenty-five years.”
“[Wade] effectively uses the concept of ‘compromised peacebuilding’
from the work of Michael Barnett and Christoph Zürcher1 to guide
her analysis of how ‘state and local elites are able to redirect
the distribution of assistance so that it maximizes their
interests’…Could the elite capture of the Salvadoran peace process
have been otherwise? Wade draws several important lessons.”
*Latin American Research Review*
“There is no other book like this on the market…It would not
surprise me if, after reading this book, scholars working on
postwar El Salvador adopted the phrase ‘captured peace’ to refer to
the period.”
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