POSC240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Standard Fruit Company, United Fruit Company, Banana Republic
9 Aug 2016
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Civil wars in most central american countries during the 190s and 1980s. Hundreds of thousands died and many wars lasted twenty to thirty years. To understand how the wars started and ended we have to move beyond just talking. Background about the state and think about how nsas influence global politics and state behavior o monocultural export system. A banana republic is a poor, underdeveloped state that is organized around a. Non-governmental organizations such as humanitarian and civil rights groups, churches, Locals organize after sever repression, they take up. Arms against government- threat to state are not necessarily external! Early rebel movements organize under marxist and communist thought (anti-imperialism, Media shapes war and how we think about it. Un gets involved in trying to resolve central american civil wars, why? (hint: why would 2 warring parties want someone else to come in and help him or her. 3rd parties, especially the un do a lot:
