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The Limits of Reform Development in Contemporary Costa Rica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Juan M. Del Aguila
Juan M. Del Aguila*
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Department of Political Science, Emory Univeristy
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Crisis, breakdown, and disintegration have become operative concepts in journalistic, academic, and official assessments of contemporary affairs in Central America. The radicalization and Cubanization of the Nicaraguan revolution, the resurgence of revolutionary messianism and continuing violence in El Salvador and Guatemala, and the increasingly active and direct role which regional powers and European countries are playing in the region have turned Central America into a salient, global confrontational arena.

A systemic view, however, would miss important political processes continuing with surprising strength but unnoticed regularity in some Central American nations indirectly affected by revolutionary conflict and thus partially insulated from the region's high level of violence.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 355 - 374
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Copyright © University of Miami 1982

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