The Trouble in Suriname, 1975-1993

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Written by the leading political expert on Suriname, this thrilling tale describes ethnically inspired guerilla warfare, terrible human rights violations, military coups, painful redemocratization processes, and economic implosion. Although part of the American family of nations in the Western Hemisphere, there is almost nothing written about Suriname as a modern country. There are some ethnographies, some histories of ex-slave rebellions, and passing references to the atrocities of colonial plantation systems. After that, the dark clouds of obscurity close over a fascinating if beleaguered close American cousin, one whose history as an independent nation has much to say to the strife-ridden trouble spots of the 1990s--Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Liberia, and Nicaragua.

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"The Trouble in Suriname is a fascinating, engagingly written account of the ups and downs of Surinamese democracy. The recent political history of this small country contains big and important lessons about the tenacity of ethnic loyalties and the need for building inter-ethnic coalitions, which will be of interest to a broad audience."-Arend Lijphart, Professor of Political Science University of California, San Diego
.,."an interesting and thought-provoking book on the recent political history of Suriname. This is a worth-while addition to libraries with a Caribbean or Latin American focus. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty."-Choice
...an interesting and thought-provoking book on the recent political history of Suriname. This is a worth-while addition to libraries with a Caribbean or Latin American focus. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty.-Choice
..."an interesting and thought-provoking book on the recent political history of Suriname. This is a worth-while addition to libraries with a Caribbean or Latin American focus. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty."-Choice

Author Bio

EDWARD M. DEW is Professor of Politics at Fairfield University in Connecticut. With degrees from George Washington University, Yale and UCLA, Dew has specialized in Latin American Studies. He is the author of Politics in the Altiplano: The Dynamics of Change in Rural Peru (1969) and The Difficult Flowering of Suriname: Ethnicity and Politics in a Plural Society (1978).