Securing Central America Against Communism

The United States and the Modernization of Surveillance in the Cold War

Bibliographic Data

ID5014580
AuthorsRobert H Holden (Old Dominion University, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume41
Issue1
Pages1-30
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/166225
OpenAlexW4241681811
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

The US.-sponsored programs of military and police collaboration with the Central American governments during the Cold War also contributed to the surveillance capacity of those states during the period when the Central American state formation process was being completed. Guatemala is used as a case study. Washington's contribution was framed by the conventional discourse of "security against communism" but also by an underlying technocratic ethos in which "modernization" and "security" were higher priorities than democratization

Cold war · Communism · Democracy · Democratization · Economic history · Economics · Ethos · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Technocracy · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration

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