Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Gods and Arms
This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war--both in a destructive and constructive way. Religion can justify and mobilize violence--even terrorism or guerilla wars--just like political ideology. But how is such a link between religion and violent behavior established in the first place? How can we go further in understanding this possible connection between religion and war? Is religious peace work just the flip side of religious support of war? Or can peace work be informed by knowing about how religion promotes violence and war? In the search for answers to the puzzle of religion and war, it is easy to focus on conflict and war si...
Chronicle of a Failure Foretold
Chronicle of a Failure Foretold charts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana's efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war.
Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries
As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. Threats to security are now as likely to come from armed propagandists, popular militias, or mercenary organizations as they are from conventional armies backed by nation-states. In this timely book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of irregular warfare—the gang. Since the end of the Cold War, some one hundred insurgencies or irregular wars have erupted throughout the world. Gangs have figured prominently in more than half of those conflicts, yet these and other nonstate actors hav...
State Legitimacy in a Fragile Context
During the course of the last decades, the state experienced a revival on the scene of international development as there has been a growing acknowledgment amongst the international development community that the state plays a key role in enabling development in a specific society. Therefore, the role of the state and especially the concept of state-building have occupied a central place in the development discourse. In that respect, a growing interest has manifested itself in the discussion and analysis around so-called "fragile states". The author discussed the development discourse around that state-building paradigm in general and focuses through its field research in Colombia specifically on the question of the state legitimacy in so-called fragile contexts.
Con el pucho de la vida
Un periodista investiga el suicidio de una colombiana en París. Conociendo su historia, sus amores, y existencias consagradas a ideologías radicales, amigas por igual de compasión y la lucha armada.
Mis años de guerra
None
forum for inter-american research Vol 5
Volume 5 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Colombia no es una isla.
Frente a quienes sostienen que Colombia debe globalizarse es preciso afirmar que ningún país es una isla, esto es, que todos, de alguna manera, están globalizados en una historia de la humanidad que se ha venido unificando, en muchos casos, a costa de la diversidad cultural. La pregunta que debe proponerse, en consecuencia, no es si Colombia debe globalizarse, la pregunta es ¿de qué manera Colombia se ha globalizado? En el mismo sentido, tras constatar que en el contexto de la globalización todos los países están insertados en la economía de mercado, incluso en contra de la idea de construir un modelo de desarrollo propio, la cuestión que debe proponerse es: ¿de qué manera se ha ...
Gente que conocí
None
“Hacer invivible la república”: Reflexiones en torno a la figura de Laureano Gómez Castro
El ser latinoamericano ha existido, existe y existirá fermentándose siempre en nuestra cotidianidad sensible, pues no hay identidad sin cercanía material, sin objetos queridos, sin lugares amados, sin espacios habitados, sin autorreconocimiento estético. Partiendo de este convencimiento, nos hemos arriesgado con el presente trabajo a responder por fin la esquiva pregunta heideggeriana: ¿qué es el ser?... Sin lugar a duda, ¡el ser es "lo sencillo"! Solo basta con internarnos en “El camino en el campo” para develar, desde un diálogo muy propio con Heidegger, que el ser es la relación sublime del hombre con todo aquello que cuida, protege, mantiene, ama y habita.
