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Colombia: A Country Study
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
Colombia
Recent political changes in Colombia have opened up possibilities to think beyond the long-standing conflict and violence to promote a development agenda, based upon economic growth, social welfare and environmental protection. This publication contains various policy papers which seek to contribute to the national debate on options to address these development challenges. The book is intended to provide the incoming Colombian presidential administration with a comprehensive policy discussion regarding the country's development agenda.
Post-conflict Colombia and the Global Circulation of Military Expertise
By challenging more common analyses that point to the existence of a "post-conflict scenario" in Colombia and those that resist the narrative of "success", both of which operate within the logic of presence/absence of violence, this book proposes instead that we think of "post-conflict" in terms of the transformation of the rules on the use of violence. The analysis unfolds in two parts: the first explores the conditions of possibility of the Colombian “success story” and the web of criteria legitimizing the “success”, as well as the silencing mechanisms allowing for Colombia to circulate internationally as a formula to be replicated in other parts of the world; the second, focuses on the historicization of the mechanisms through which new rules are transmitted among the professionals of the public force, specifically the transformations of military schools and training centers in Colombia from times of “war” to “peace”. The author argues that key to this transformation is a unique discursive articulation around the “military professional” which slides from “citizen-soldier” to “expert-soldier”.
Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018)
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project centred on the peace process with the FARC. Football has huge political and social capital in Latin America, and has often been rhetorically deployed by governments for various ends; rarely, however, has football’s power and potential been used in such a deliberate, strategic and active way towards a national peace process and targeted such enduring divisions that have historically impeded a sen...
Administración pública electrónica: hacia el procedimiento administrativo electrónico
Una vez aprobada el 12 de junio de 1996 la Ley Modelo sobre Comercio Electrónico y de Firma Electrónica por parte de la Comisión de las Naciones Unidas para el Derecho Mercantil Internacional —CNUDMI— nace el principio de equivalencia funcional, al cual se le dedica éste análisis. Se expone durante el trabajo, cómo el principio de equivalencia funcional ha contribuido a darle vida al derecho sustancial preexistente por medio del uso y la implantación de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y las telecomunicaciones dentro de cada uno de los diferentes marcos jurídicos de los estados. Asimismo, se realiza una descripción sobre cómo algunos países han incorporado dentro de ...
“Cumpliendo con mi oficio”
Este libro es una suerte de refugio necesario para poner en orden algunas ideas en torno a una realidad paradójicamente sobrecogedora en la esfera cotidiana, pero igualmente inadvertida como objeto de reflexión académica. Con esta forma particular y solitaria de evasión de una vorágine laboral que ha avasallado por años al autor, se ha pretendido descorrer el velo de una singular verdad construida sobre el imperativo de la felicidad en la esfera del trabajo de Medellín. Se trata de entrever el irresistible trasegar histórico de cierta pedagogía que, valiéndose de disciplinas como la medicina, la psiquiatría, la psicología, la ingeniería y la administración, entre otras, se ha p...
Colombian Agency and the making of US Foreign Policy
This book studies a significant event in US relations with Latin America, shedding light on the role of dependent states and their foreign policy agency in the process by which local concerns become intertwined with the dominant state’s foreign policy. Plan Colombia was a large-scale foreign aid programme through which the US intervened in the internal affairs of Colombia, by invitation. It proved to be one of the major successes of US foreign policy, and has been credited with stemming a potentially catastrophic security failure of the Colombian state. This book discusses the strategies and practices deployed by the Colombian government to influence US foreign policy decision making at th...
Memoria y olvido: usos públicos del pasado en Colombia, 1930-1960
En esta obra se analizan los usos públicos del pasado, los olvidos y los revisionismos promovidos en las conmemoraciones, la enseñanza de la historia patria y la conservación patrimonial, para consolidar e instalar las tradiciones patrióticas de la memoria nacional. Inicialmente se aborda la configuración de la Academia Colombiana de Historia –ACH–, como organismo emisor de la memoria oficial entre 1930 y 1960, en la articulación de cuatro mecanismos institucionales (un cuerpo de académicos dedicados a la historia como patriotismo y afición, la construcción de un proyecto editorial para la divulgación de la historia patria, la fundación de filiales y la legitimación de la ent...
