State Terrorism and the United States: From Counter-Insurgency to the War on Terrorism

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2004 - Political Science - 254 pages
This is a chilling analysis of the immediate predecessor of the US war on terrorism: its counter-insurgency policy during the Cold War. The US promised a low level response uniquely tailored to assisting third world states to respond to local insurgencies seeking social change. Drawing on the reports of Truth Commissions from six countries, Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, and Indonesia, Frederick Gareau examines a harrowing array of human rights abuses by US-supported dictators, governments and paramilitary groups against their own peoples. He shows that state and para-statal forces committed by far the greatest proportion of violence, and that these state repressions were perpetrated with Washington's full awareness, complicity, and military and politico-diplomatic support, if not at its instigation.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION11
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THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS AND TERROR IN EL SALVADOR22
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WASHINGTON TEACHES AND UNDERWRITES COUNTERINSURGENCY
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Frederick H. Gareau is full professor at Florida State University and author of The United Nations and Other International Institutions: A Critical Analysis (2001) as well as an extensive number of articles and conference reports. Frederick H. Gareau is full professor at Florida State University and author of The United Nations and Other International Institutions: A Critical Analysis (2001) as well as an extensive number of articles and conference reports.

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TitleState Terrorism and the United States: From Counter-Insurgency to the War on Terrorism
AuthorFrederick H. Gareau
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2004
ISBN1842775359, 9781842775356
Length254 pages
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Political Science / Security (National & International)
  
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