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The community divided
In: SUNY series in Near Eastern studies
In: The history of al-Ṭabarī v. 16
In: Bibliotheca Persica
Land, power, and poverty: agrarian transformation and political conflict in Central America
In: Thematic studies in Latin America
Violence, Peacebuilding, and Democratic Struggles in Central America
In: Latin American research review, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 495-504
ISSN: 1542-4278
Disturbing secrets: US-Costa Rican relations during the Nixon administration
In: Cold war history, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 253-271
ISSN: 1743-7962
The Drug Kingpin Decapitation Strategy in Guatemala: Successes and Shortcomings
In: Latin American politics and society, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 47-71
ISSN: 1548-2456
ABSTRACTThis study analyzes whether Guatemalan success with the kingpin decapitation strategy of bringing major drug traffickers to justice has accomplished its greater objectives of reducing cocaine trafficking and drug-related violence. The analysis finds little evidence of success for the first objective in Guatemala but notable success for the second. One of the few studies to examine the application of this strategy outside Mexico and Colombia, its findings are interpreted in light of their contrasting experiences. The article provides an overview of drug trafficking in Guatemala and concise studies of two of its most important organizations targeted by the kingpin strategy.
Middle East History Is Social History
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 382-384
ISSN: 1471-6380
My engagement with the social history of the Middle East, as I embarked on graduate studies, coincided with Judith Tucker's lamentation in 1990 that it was a field understudied to the point of being largely ignored. I came to the study of this new region with training in the native history of Canada, which had introduced me to the challenges and rewards of reconstructing the stories of people who had been denied agency in a narrative dominated by European conquest and nation-building.
Julie Marie Bunck and Michael Ross Fowler, Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation: Drug Trafficking and the Law in Central America (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2012), pp. xii+431, $89.95, hb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 619-620
ISSN: 1469-767X
Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation: Drug Trafficking and the Law in Central America
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 619-620
ISSN: 0022-216X
Timothy J. Smith and Abigail E. Adams (eds.), After the Coup: An Ethnographic Reframing of Guatemala 1954 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011), pp. ii+184, $65.00, $22.00 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 418-420
ISSN: 1469-767X
After the Coup: An Ethnographic Reframing of Guatemala 1954
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 418-420
ISSN: 1469-767X
US Labour and Management Fight It Out in Post-1954 Guatemala
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 517-549
ISSN: 1469-767X
AbstractThe differing perspectives and actions of US government, business and labour towards the Guatemalan government and Guatemalan trade unionists themselves in the half-decade or so following the overthrow of the Arbenz administration in 1954 are the focus of this study. Few areas were more important to the US project for Guatemala following the Castillo Armas invasion than helping the Guatemalans to create a 'free' and 'democratic' labour movement – and few areas would prove more frustrating. Part of the problem was the intransigent stance of Guatemalan elites. An additional challenge was strong opposition from the major US-based companies operating in Guatemala, most notably the United Fruit Company and its affiliates. This work contests interpretations that regard US policy towards countries like Guatemala at the time as simply beholden to business interests or as seeking domination. Rather, as Washington's interest in the transition diminished, officials in the US embassy and representatives of US labour in Guatemala were left isolated, unable to fulfil their vision for a democratic labour movement in the teeth of such opposition.
US labour and management fight it out in post-1954 Guatemala
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 517-549
ISSN: 0022-216X
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PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE: BÜYÜK CİHAD AND THE GREAT STRUGGLE FOR THE MUSLIM TURKISH NATION (1951–53)
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 455a-455a
ISSN: 1471-6380
The article argues that to move beyond the standard nationalist narrative of Turkish history, scholars must employ new sources such as the provincial newspaper. Through a study of a religious nationalist provincial newspaper—Büyük Cihad (The Great Struggle)—from the early 1950s, it is possible to appreciate the extent and importance of a vibrant public debate concerning secularism and the place of Islam in Turkish society immediately after World War II. This debate has gone almost completely unnoticed, yet it constitutes an important foundation for understanding the present prominence of political Islam in Turkish society. Central to this debate is the person of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: ultimately it was criticism of Turkey's founding president rather than any real threat of "religious reaction" that prompted the government's decision to suppress religious publications in early 1953.
The Legend of 'The Turk' in Korea: Popular Perceptions of the Korean War and Their Importance to a Turkish National Identity
In: War & society, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 109-142
ISSN: 2042-4345