The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes

by David Nugent

What happens when a seemingly rational state becomes paranoid and delusional? The Encrypted State engages in a close analysis of political disorder to shed new light on the concept of political stability. The book focuses on a crisis of rule in mid-20th-century Peru, a period when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives. The Encrypted State...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503609030
• ISBN13: 9781503609037
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"