Review of "The Extraordinary Paths of Peru: War and Society, 1980–1995" by Steve Stern
Los senderos insólitos del Perú is a collective effort to build an analysis of Peruvian war and society at a moment when the country was transitioning from military authoritarianism to formal democracy; in particular, this work seeks to "contextualize the social origins, dynamics, and consequences" of the internal war in Peru during the 1980s. The analysis revolves around five problematic axes: the roots of the upheaval and the revolutionary projects of the organization, the failed Shining Path struggle, the destruction of the apparent third way, women's war experience, and the consequences of the war on government and political cultures.