Nelson Amaro is dean of the Social Sciences Faculty and director of the Master Degree on Development at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Christopher Chase-Dunn is professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Rverside. Susanne Jonas has been a expert on Guatemala for 34 years and is the author, most recently, ofCentaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process she is professor of Latin American & Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Globalization on the Ground brings together the thinking of a group of concerned scholars on the problems of the development of democracy in the post-civil war era. Four of the contributors are Guatemalans with long records of understanding the dynamics of their country, and the remainder are North Americans, most of whom are longtime observers. The authors pose questions and issues that speak to the difficulties currently confronting Guatemala.

• Part 1 The Future of Guatemalan DevelopmentChapter 2 Guatemalan Development and Democratization: Past, Present, and FutureChapter 3 Development and Equity: The Agenda for the Twenty-first CenturyPart 4 Democracy, Demilitarization, and the StateChapter 5 Global Forces and Regime Change: Guatemala within the Central American ContextChapter 6 Democratization through PeaceChapter 7 Decentralization, Local Government, and Citizen Participation: Unsolved Problems in the Guatemalan Democratization ProcessChapter 8 Demilitarization and Security in El Salvador and Guatemala: Convergences of Success and CrisisChapter 9 Democracy and the Market in GuatemalaChapter 10 Coffee and the Guatemalan StatePart 11 Indigenous Movements and Social ChangeChapter 12 Pan-Mayanism and the Guatemalan Peace ProcessChapter 13 The Development of Globalization in the Mayan Population of GuatemalaChapter 14 Linguistic Diversity, Interculturalism, and DemocracyPart 15 Globalization on the GroundChapter 16 Neoliberalism, the Global Elite, and the Guatemalan Transition: A Critical Macrosocial AnalysisChapter 17 Globalization from Below in GuatemalaChapter 18 Theories of Development and their Application to Small CountriesChapter 19 Appendix: Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesChapter 20 IndexChapter 21 About the Authors