{"product_id":"chronicle-of-a-failure-foretold-harvey-f-kline-9780817354107","title":"Chronicle of a Failure Foretold: The Peace Process of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana's efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for almost sixty years with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties and with bursts of appalling violence punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed uncounted lives of (most often) peasants, conscript soldiers, and people who just got in the way. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHope for resolution of this conflict is usually confined to dreamers and millenialists of various persuasions, but occasionally an attempt is made at a breakthrough in the military stalemate between the government and the Marxist groups. One of the most promising such attempts was made by new Colombian President Andrés Pastrana at a time when the main rebel groups seemed receptive to serious dialogue. This book is an account of that effort at peace, accompanied at the outset by domestic and international support and hope, and yet doomed like so many others to eventual failure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough interviews with many of the actors in this drama, as well as an understanding of the various interest groups and economic forces at work in Colombia, Dr. Kline charts the progress and ultimate failure of this effort, and thereby hopes to increase understanding of the causes of its lack of success. The importance of the resolution of the conflict to the region and to ordinary citizens of this troubled land cannot be \u003cbr\u003eoverstated. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvey F. Kline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817354107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817354107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.58w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 74","brand":"Harvey F. Kline","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448987824383,"sku":"9780817354107","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ecbd7e97-3157-4afc-b853-2fa45cdeff30.jpg?v=1777261457","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chronicle-of-a-failure-foretold-harvey-f-kline-9780817354107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}