A model is a simplification of reality by which specific characteristics are taken out of their context for analytical purposes. Globalization is a recent process that is linking societies beyond the nation-state’s limits through massive ways of consumption, communications, capital and credit management that supersede former borders and pervade political, social and cultural spheres. At […]

Este trabajo quiere examinar las similitudes y diferencias entre diferentes conflictos que lograron culminar en firmas de paz o procesos electorales en el área centroamericana. Ello ofrece la base para escoger el caso guatemalteco como aquél que teniendo aspectos comunes con los demás conflictos en el área tales como el nicaragüense y el salvadoreño, se […]

The collapse of socialist regimes after 1989 reflects more bankruptcy than political change. The “old revolutionaries” and/or “counter-revolutionaries”— depending on the perspective— have been left unemployed. Before, a subversive agenda existed for “would be” destroyers or builders of “Ancient Regimes,” “Betrayed Revolutions,” and “Restorations.” Their prescriptions were very similar to the way Fidel Castro seized […]