Between Two Fires: Dictatorship and Subversion in Peru, 1980–2000

Based on the publication by Jo-Marie Burt, Violence and Authoritarianism in Peru: Under the Shadow of Sendero and the Fujimori Dictatorship (see in the BVGA), the author considers that the most important conclusion drawn from the book is that the State should take advantage of post-dictatorship junctures to create a pact with civil society. Violence and Authoritarianism in Peru does not aim to stand as a work with a moral or recipe about what the government should or should not do to connect with civil society and gain legitimacy. Violence and Authoritarianism in Peru is a book that responds to the need to understand the logic of how subversion developed in Peru and how it was combated on two fronts: the State and civil society.