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Clientelistic Warfare
This book analyzes the relationship between Colombian paramilitaries and the State in 1982-2007, which has proven to be complex as the former was not a homogenous force. New empirical evidence shows that there was a set of basic mechanisms, mediated by political institutions and clientelistic Colombian polity, that established a link between them.
State, Political Power and Criminality in Civil War
This book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and political power into the equation. It argues that the terms in which the debate is generally posed are still inadequate to address the complexities of this relationship, showing how criminalisation and de-criminalisation are deeply political and hotly contested processes. The shifting movements towards the separation -or convergence- between criminality and politics are part of the processes of constitution of both political power and state. The chapters in the volume flesh out the mechanisms and social dynamics through which this takes place. This edited volume will be of great interest to upper-level students, academics, and researchers in Politics, History and Criminology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Political Power.
Rebel Governance in Civil War
This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.
¿Un nuevo ciclo de la guerra en Colombia?
Despertamos muy pronto del sueño de pacificara Colombia. Si bien la firma del Acuerdo de Paz con las farc marcó un punto de inflexión en la inercia de la guerra contrainsurgente, su implementación hace agua por todas partes. Los hechos violentos y el registro de fenómenos asociados a ellos son cada vez más frecuentes y los medios empiezan a nombrar esa realidad política, aún confusa y dispersa, como la nueva violencia. ¿Estamos en un periodo de transición?, ¿entramos en una tercera fase de la guerra en Colombia? El libro de Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, lúcido y consistente, propone salidas a estas preguntasde fondo y, con la esperanza de preservar lo que todavía se puede, presenta los peligros que enfrenta el país si persiste el incumplimientode lo acordado.
La ciudad representada
Documentado análisis de Bogotá como escenario en el que se representan los grandes conflictos que caracterizan la vida política del país, muestra en varios planos, cómo los resultados de la vida social en esta ciudad, grande, sucia y a tormentada no son producto de un gigantesco malentendido.
Economic Liberalization and Political Violence
A study of workers struggles against management regimes in Britain's car industry from the Second World War to the late 1980s.
The Politics of Violence in Latin America
Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war, violent protest, and ballooning rates of criminal violence. But is violence hard wired into Latin America? This is a critical reassessment of the ways in which violence in Latin America is addressed and understood. Previous approaches have relied on structural perspectives, attributing the problem of violence to Latin America's colonial past or its conflictual contemporary politics. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, this volume argues that violence is often rooted more in contingent outcomes than in deeply embedded structures. Addressing topics ranging from the root sources of violence in Haiti to kidnapping in Colombia, from the role of property rights in patterns of violence to the challenges of peacebuilding, The Politics of Violence in Latin America is an essential step towards understanding the causes and contexts of violence-and changing the mechanisms that produce it.
Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States
Current global estimates of children engaged in warfare range from 200,000 to 300,000. Children's roles in conflict range from armed and active participants to spies, cooks, messengers, and sex slaves. Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States examines the factors that contribute to the use of children in war, the effects of war upon children, and the perpetual cycle of warfare that engulfs many of the world's poorest nations. The contributors seek to eliminate myths of historic or culture-based violence, and instead look to common traits of chronic poverty and vulnerable populations. Individual essays examine topics such as: the legal and ethical aspects of child soldiering; internal UN...
Repertoires of Terrorism
Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Andreas E. Feldmann examines the disparate behavior of actors including guerrilla groups, state security forces, and paramilitaries during Colombia’s long and bloody civil war. Analyzing the varieties of violence in this conflict, he develops a new theory of the dynamics of terrorism in civil wars. Feldmann argues that armed groups’ distinct uses—repertoires—of terrorism arise from their particular organizational identities, the central and enduring attributes that distinguish one faction from other warring parties. He investigates a range of groups that took...
Rebelocracy
Based on years of fieldwork in Colombia, this is an analysis of rebel institutions and civilian-combatant relations in civil war.
