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from the Georgetown University Center for Strategic & International Studies
and
The National Defense University
Latin American Insurgencies - publication date 1985, edited by Georges Fauriol
Table of Contents
- Insurgencies and Latin American Environment by Georges Fauriol
- Guerrilla Warfare and Latin American Revolt
- A New Brand of Revolt
- Overview of Latin American Insurgencies by Andrew Hoehn Carlos Weiss
- Historical Development
- The Contemporary Setting
- Insurgent Movements and Activities
- The Past as Prologue
- The International Terrorist Network by Yonah Alexander and Richard Kucinski
- A Definitional Focus
- The Soviet-Latin American Connection
- Cuban-Latin American Linkages
- Nicaragua's Role
- Cuban and Nicaraguan Operations
- The Libyan Connection
- The PLO (Palestinian) Connection
- The Sendero Luminoso Rebellion in Rural Peru by David Scott Palmer
- Development of Sendero Luminosa ( Shining Path)
- The National Context: Socioeconomic and Political Turbulence
- The Local Context: Poverty, Isolation, and Frustrated Reform Initiatives
- Possibilities for the Future
- The Highlands War in Guatemala by Cesar D. Sereseres
- The Regional Context of the Guatemalan Insurgency
- Military Politics, Socioeconomic Patterns, and the Highlands War
- Basic Characteristics of the Insurgency
- The Response of the Military Government, 1982 - 1984
- Lessons from Guatamala's Highlands War
- U.S. Policies Toward Insurgencies in Latin America by Jack Child
- Overview of U.S. Insurgency Policies, 1961 - 1980
- Current Insurgency Policies: The Reagan Administration
- U.S. Policy Options
- The Future of Latin American Insurgencies by William Ratliff
- Why Insurgencies?
- The Problem of Objectives
- Learning from Past Insurgencies
- Revolutionary Strategies Today
- Factors Inhibiting the Growth of Insurgencies
- Revolutionary Strategies for the Future
- Response to Future Insurgencies
- Concluding Comments by Georges Fauriol and Andrew Hoehn
-- During their wars for national independence, their internal struggles and revolutions, Latin American countries have survived many forms of insurgent violence. The nature of modern insurgencies in Central and South America and the Caribbean, however, seems to distinguish them from earlier Latin American conflicts. Whereas previous struggles were contests to decide who would govern, recent insurgencies are more ideological, seeking to change the form of government itself.
This trend, coupled with involvement of powers outside the region - such as the Soviet Union, Libya, and the Palestine Liberation Organization - make Latin American insurgencies of growing concern.
To examine the issue this issue, the National Defense University and the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies co-sponsored a series of meetings in the spring of 1984. The papers presented at those meetings are published here. In additional case studies of specific insurgent movements in Peru and Guatemala, this book includes discussions of Latin American insurgent activity in its broad historical and present day contexts, U.S. policy options, and the likely course of insurgencies in the future.
The increasingly political nature and persistence of insurgent movements call for careful consideration of how best to contain them. This collection can help us better understand specific national cases and perhaps better formulate U.S. policy toward the general region.
CONDITION: Soft Cover, 214 pages, USED with some shelf wear to cover edges, book within clean and in vg condition
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