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Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy.(Review) (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, December, 1999 by Torres-Rivas, Edelberto
Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy. By Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. 244p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
This volume is the first modern military history of El Salvador. It also is an excellent synthesis of the efforts necessary to attain democracy up to the beginning of the 1980s. Moreover, in analyzing the current situation, it chronicles the peace negotiations.
The twentieth-century history of El Salvador reveals two tragic features that have no parallel elsewhere in Central or ...
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