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After Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador
written by Ralph Sprenkels (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018), 484 page(s)
El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén b...
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written by Ralph Sprenkels (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018), 484 page(s)
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El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén became the country’s second FMLN president. After Insurgency focuses on the development of El Salvador’s FMLN from armed insurgency...
El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén became the country’s second FMLN president. After Insurgency focuses on the development of El Salvador’s FMLN from armed insurgency to a competitive political party. At the end of the war in 1992, the historical ties between insurgent veterans enabled the FMLN to reconvert into a relatively effective electoral machine. However, these same ties also fueled factional dispute and clientelism. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Ralph Sprenkels examines El Salvador’s revolutionary movement as a social field, developing an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to the study of insurgent movements in general and their aftermath in particular, while weaving in the personal stories of former revolutionaries with a larger historical study of the civil war and of the transformation process of wartime forces into postwar political contenders. This allows Sprenkels to shed new light on insurgency’s persistent legacies, both for those involved as well as for Salvadoran politics at large. In documenting the shift from armed struggle to electoral politics, the book adds to ongoing debates about contemporary Latin America politics, the “pink tide,” and post-neoliberal electoralism. It also charts new avenues in the study of insurgency and its aftermath.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Ralph Sprenkels
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Topic / Theme
Revolution and Protest context, Elections, Revolutions, Insurgency, Politics & Policy, History, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2018 University of Notre Dame Press
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Airgram Cover Sheet from U.S. Embassy in Bern to Scully re: Re Repatriation Flights - Cuba, April 02, 1963
in General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002 (RG59). Records Relating to Cuba, 1962 - 1964 (P 50), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (1963), Box 1, Cuba Repatriation General , 1 page(s)
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in General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002 (RG59). Records Relating to Cuba, 1962 - 1964 (P 50), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (1963), Box 1, Cuba Repatriation General , 1 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
1963
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
Cuba and the United States Border, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Airgram from U.S. Embassy in Bern to Department of State re: Figures Concerning Red Cross Repatriation Flights, April 26, 1963
written by United States. Embassy (Bern), in General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002 (RG59). Records Relating to Cuba, 1962 - 1964 (P 50), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (1963), Box 1, Cuba Repatriation General , 1 page(s)
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written by United States. Embassy (Bern), in General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002 (RG59). Records Relating to Cuba, 1962 - 1964 (P 50), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (1963), Box 1, Cuba Repatriation General , 1 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
1963
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
United States. Embassy (Bern)
Topic / Theme
Cuba and the United States Border, Repatriation, Politics & Policy, Cubans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Airgram from U.S. Embassy in Bern to Representation U.S. Interest - Cuba re: Figures Concerning Red Cross Repatriation Flights, April 02, 19...
written by United States. Embassy (Bern), in General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002 (RG59). Records Relating to Cuba, 1962 - 1964 (P 50), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (1963), Box 1, Cuba Repatriation General , 1 page(s)
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written by United States. Embassy (Bern), in General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002 (RG59). Records Relating to Cuba, 1962 - 1964 (P 50), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (1963), Box 1, Cuba Repatriation General , 1 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
1963
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
United States. Embassy (Bern)
Topic / Theme
Cuba and the United States Border, Repatriation, Politics & Policy, Cubans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Alliance National Council and Executive Council : list of members (b2777515)
in Institute of Commonwealth Studies Collection, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) , 2 page(s)
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in Institute of Commonwealth Studies Collection, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) , 2 page(s)
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, Constitution, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Material sourced from the Collection of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Senate House Library, University of London. Copyright © The University of London.
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
written by Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968- and Pierre Rigoulot, 1944- (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001, originally published 2000), 265 page(s)
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of th...
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written by Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968- and Pierre Rigoulot, 1944- (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001, originally published 2000), 265 page(s)
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North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insigh...
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Yair Reiner, fl. 2001
Author / Creator
Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968-, Pierre Rigoulot, 1944-
Date Published / Released
2000, 2001
Publisher
Basic Books
Topic / Theme
Korea and its Borders, Social conflict, Internment camps, Political prisoners, Politics & Policy, North Koreans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2005 by Perseus Book Group
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A Bill to Establish an Adult Job Corps Demonstration Program for the United States-Mexico Border Area
written by United States. Congress. House, in United States Congress, 107th Congress, 2d Session, H. R. 5208, July 24, 2002 (U. S. Government Printing Office, 2002), 3 page(s)
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written by United States. Congress. House, in United States Congress, 107th Congress, 2d Session, H. R. 5208, July 24, 2002 (U. S. Government Printing Office, 2002), 3 page(s)
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Law/Legislation
Author / Creator
United States. Congress. House
Date Published / Released
24 July 2002, 2002
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, January 1, 1994, Politics & Policy, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers
edited by Hastings Donnan, 1953- and Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1998), 314 page(s)
This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance, and diverse forms, of boundary politic...
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edited by Hastings Donnan, 1953- and Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1998), 314 page(s)
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This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance, and diverse forms, of boundary politics.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Hastings Donnan, 1953-, Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999
Date Published / Released
1998, 2004
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, Immigrant populations, Political boundaries, Cultural identity, Anthropology, Geography, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1998 Cambridge University Press
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Border Regions Series, Borders, Fences, and Walls
edited by Elisabeth Vallet, fl. 2003, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2014), 299 page(s)
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ’Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ’wall’ has been a constant in the protection of d...
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edited by Elisabeth Vallet, fl. 2003, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2014), 299 page(s)
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ’Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ’wall’ has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In r...
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ’Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ’wall’ has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years, the wall has been given renewed vigour in North America, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Israel-Palestine. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those 'behind the line'? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls? This book explores the issue of how the return of the border fences and walls as a political tool may be symptomatic of a new era in border studies and international relations. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines problems that include security issues ; the recurrence and/or decline of the wall; wall discourses ; legal approaches to the wall; the ’wall industry’ and border technology, as well as their symbolism, role, objectives and efficiency.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Elisabeth Vallet, fl. 2003
Date Published / Released
2014, 2016
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
Border Regions Series
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, Political boundaries, Crossing borders, Sociology, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 Elisabeth Vallet
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Communist China's aggression (b2748959)
written by Mukut Behari Lal, in Institute of Commonwealth Studies Collection, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) , 76 page(s)
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written by Mukut Behari Lal, in Institute of Commonwealth Studies Collection, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) , 76 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Mukut Behari Lal
Topic / Theme
China and its Borders, Border Events and Areas Context, Political violence, Political boundaries, History, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Collection of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Senate House Library, University of London. Copyright © The University of London.
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