Root Causes of Violence in Post-Civil War Guatemala: A Literature Review
This area needs continued research to advise policy makers on how to correct and prevent further deterioration of Guatemala’s security sector.
Peru and Chile’s Ocean View Resolved Dispute
Peru v. Chile exemplifies that legalistic intervention is a peaceful and adequate method for defining borders in modern times.
Evaluating Ecuador’s Decision to Abandon the Yasuni-Itt Initiative
The lack of democracy associated with the decision-making process to drill Block ITT has fuelled a high degree of currently ongoing civil discontent in Ecuador.
The Role of Transitional Justice Processes in Building Peace in Latin America
To play an effective role in peace building, truth commissions must address underlying structural violence and contribute to the success of additional justice mechanisms.
Decolonising Structural Realist Understandings of Latin America
Despite the fact that grand narratives inevitably advantage, disadvantage, include, and exclude, scholars should remember that the mind must still be decolonised.
How Have Illicit Drug Trade Networks Undermined Colombia’s Development?
Colombia and international actors must begin tapping into a development policy that recognises the need to bridge political and civil society.
How Have Austerity Measures Undermined Peruvian Women’s Reproductive Rights?
Under the guise of women’s ‘empowerment’ and and ‘rights to ones own body,’ Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori disguised the economic ideology of the regime.
Does the Latin American Left Offer a Post-Neoliberal Alternative?
The role of the state as the facilitator of capitalist interests has limited the Bolivian government in its ability to initiate a break from neoliberal economics.
The Effects of the Mexican Drug Trade over the Past Sixty Years
Drug trade has manufactured a deterioration of the federal state, but alarmist discourse conflates heterogeneous local effects with political issues at the national level
Coping with the Legacy of the Civil War in El Salvador
The Commission on the Truth for El Salvador partly failed but has also reached significant successes.
