Florida International University FIU Digital Commons LACC Occasional papers series. Dialogues (1980 - Kimberly Green Latin American and Carribbean 1994) Center (LACC) Publications Network January 1984 Costa Rica: The onflicC t Over Stabilization and Neutrality, 1983-84 (Dialogue #36) Lowell W. Gudmundson Mt. Holyoke College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/laccopsd Recommended Citation Gudmundson, Lowell W. , "Costa Rica: The onflC ict Over Stabilization and Neutrality, 1983-84 (Dialogue #36)" (1984). LACC Occasional papers series. Dialogues (1980 - 1994). 31. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/laccopsd/31 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the Kimberly Green Latin American and Carribbean Center (LACC) Publications Network at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LACC Occasional papers series. Dialogues (1980 - 1994) by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PREFACE Lowell Gudmundson is Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, His field research began in Costa Rica in 1975, where he was assistant professor of history at the Universidad Nacional (Heredia). Dr. Gudmundson is the author of grecmy mliticw U Y a& 1800- 195Q (San Jose: Editorial Costa Rica, 1984), Utratlflcacion. a ~ocio- r& 1y-iif2.Costa Rita, &700 -185Q (San Jose: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 1978) and d"L1, judi~&& Costa Rita (coauthor) (San Jose: Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 1979). Other research and analysis has appeared in -be= &Y-, J;atin mricm Resaarch Review, Journal a Latin Bmerican Studies, ah% and Peasant Studies.