Greening the Counterinsurgency: The Deceptive Effects of Guatemala's Rural Development Plan of 1970

Development and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 975-998

  Copeland, Nicholas ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOCIDE; GOVERNMENT; MILITARY GOVERNMENT; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL PLANNING; STATE ROLE; VIOLENCE;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84863578476     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01783.x     Document Type: Article

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