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The most comprehensive, up-to-date book on Salvadoran politics of the last twenty-five years.

About the Author

Christine J. Wade is associate professor of political science and international studies at Washington College. She is the coauthor of Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change and Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle.

Reviews

“Those who study El Salvador closely recognize more deeply the limitations of the peace accords in transforming its politics, economics, and society. This book does a fabulous job explaining how the peace accords failed in several important ways primarily because of the intransigence of local elites…Christine Wade has produced the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on Salvadoran politics of the last twenty-five years.”

“[Wade] effectively uses the concept of ‘compromised peacebuilding’ from the work of Michael Barnett and Christoph Zürcher1 to guide her analysis of how ‘state and local elites are able to redirect the distribution of assistance so that it maximizes their interests’…Could the elite capture of the Salvadoran peace process have been otherwise? Wade draws several important lessons.”
*Latin American Research Review*

“There is no other book like this on the market…It would not surprise me if, after reading this book, scholars working on postwar El Salvador adopted the phrase ‘captured peace’ to refer to the period.”