Democratization Through Peace

The Guatemalan peace process provides an excellent opportunity to revisit a number of discussions about political democratization and social justice in Latin America. It is the premise of this article that fulfillment of the peace accords, particularly on demilitarization, is the necessary precondition for full development of political democracy in Guatemala. The article first summarizes how, beyond ending the war, the peace process has contributed to Guatemala's democratization, and then analyzes the Guatemalan experience since the early 1980s as a means to address some of the broad theoretical debates

Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economic Justice · Economics · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Premise · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Society in Latin America

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• Cacique for a Neoliberal Age

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• Democracy, social welfare and political violence

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• We are citizens too’

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• Female Empowerment as a Core Driver of Democratic Development

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• How International Actors Help Enforce Domestic Deals

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• Peace-building and business elites in Guatemala and El Salvador

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• Resocializing Suffering

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• Estado y extracción en la formación social guatemalteca

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• Elections and Democracy in Central America, Revisited

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• Obstacles to Peacebuilding

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• Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America

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• Guatemala's Postwar Prospects

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• Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America

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• Democracy with Adjectives

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• Unthinking Social Science

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• Democracy and Modernization, Thirty Years Later

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