Counter-insurgency strategy, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the civil war in Peru, 1980–1996 |
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| Authors: | LEWIS TAYLOR |
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| Institution: | Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK |
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| Abstract: | Abstract— This paper examines the main trends occurring in the counter-insurgency campaign waged since 1980 by the Peruvian state against the Partido Comunista del Perú-Sendero Luminoso. The argument is structured around the counter-insurgency model advocated by Robert Thompson, which is employed to illustrate how and why the Peruvian state was losing the civil war in the 1980s and has registered a far greater degree of success in the 1990s. |
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| Keywords: | counter-insurgency guerrillas rondas campesinas Sendero Luminoso |
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