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Resisting Backsliding
In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institutions and institutional reform, some executives have transformed their countries' democracies into competitive authoritarian regimes. Others, however, have failed to erode democracy. What explains these different outcomes? Resisting Backsliding answers this question. With a focus on the cases of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Alvaro Uribe in Colombia, the book shows that the strategies and goals of the opposition are key to understanding why some executives successfully erode democracy and others do not. By highlighting the role of the opposition, this book emphasizes the importance of agency for understanding democratic backsliding and shows that even weak oppositions can defeat strong potential autocrats.
Between the Sword and the Wall
Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia In Between the Sword and the Wall: The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Harvey Kline, a noted expert on contemporary Colombian politics, brings to a close his multivolume chronicle of the incessant violence that has devastated Colombia’s population, politics, and military for decades. This, his newest work on the subject, recounts and analyzes the negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which ended with a peace agreement in 2...
The Colombian Civil War
In 2000, the National Police of Colombia reported that 25,660 people met violent deaths in that country. According to the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia, 170 civilians were killed in the first 18 days of 2001 in massacres and selective homicides related to that country's terrible civil war. By drawing on diverse sources of information, this work brings together the thoughts of historians, journalists, human rights activists, social scientists, military veterans, law enforcement officials, Congressional investigators, financial analysts, lawyers, Roman Catholic priests, peace organization spokespersons and others about the volatile present-day situation in Colombia. It explains the complexities of the drug-financed civil war and details Washington's concern that the Colombian conflict will destabilize the Andean region. Photographs and maps enhance the text.
Binding Violence
Binding Violence exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts—in particular Sophocles' Antigone, D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat—that speak to a blind spot in democratic theory, namely, how we decide democratically on the borders of our political communities. These works bear the imprint of the anxieties of democracy concerning its other—violence—especially when the question of a redefinition of membership is at stake. The book shares the philosophical interest in rethinking politics that has recently surfaced at the crossroads of literary criticism, philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. Fradinger takes seriously the responsibility to think through and give names to the political uses of violence and to provoke useful reflection on the problem of violence as it relates to politics and on literature as it relates to its times.
Donald J. Trump
Perhaps the most divisive (and certainly the most unprecedented) president in U.S. history, the life of Donald J. Trump has been unique. From international real estate magnate to reality television star to politician, there is perhaps no more emblematic figure of the American public's frustration with politics as usual and demand for something different. Since stepping into the Oval Office, he has defied expectations, forgoing many conventions of the office and surrounding himself with a cohort of advisors with diverse backgrounds and experiences. This collection of articles focuses on Trump, the man, and his intriguing, storied life as well as the world's reaction to his unexpected, fascinating political rise.
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La mediática de la guerra y la paz
La mediática de la guerra y la paz consta de cuatro ensayos que estudian los discursos, las imágenes y la comunicación durante los años del proceso de paz en Colombia (2012-2016). La investiga-ción principal es de Valeria Parra Gregory, politóloga y periodista, quien aborda las palabras mediatizadas durante estos diálogos. El texto de Omar Rincón, ensayista y profesor de la Universidad de los Andes, reflexiona sobre la figura de Santos y sus modos erroristas de habitar comunicativamente la paz. El análisis de Jorge Bonilla, estudioso de los medios de comunicación y profesor de la Universi-dad eafit, nos recuerda que para lograr la reconciliación debemos mirarnos en el horror que habita las imágenes. Y, finalmente, Rous-beh Legatis, experto internacionalista, nos lleva a comprender cómo desde la mediática se construye colectiva y solidariamente la paz. El libro reúne, así, miradas diversas sobre cómo pasamos de un relato de nación de violencia a un nuevo relato de Colombia: el de la paz.
Veinte años no es nada
En la realidad cíclica que vive Colombia, el principal reto de estos veinte años ha sido explorar —a veces inútilmente— distintas fórmulas para no repetirse al hablar de otro secuestro, otra catástrofe, otro proceso de paz, otra masacre u otro magnicidio de esos que nos han llevado a creer una y otra vez que ahora sí tocamos fondo. Este compendio es apenas una fracción de los más de cinco mil trabajos publicados en la Vladdomanía en estas dos décadas —elaborados a punta de tinta, sudor y lágrimas—, en el cual no se pretende hacer un recuento pormenorizado de lo que ha sucedido en este país, sino un repaso desprevenido de nuestra historia inmediata. Espero que estos apuntes sirvan para desempolvar algunos hechos significativos perdidos en el olvido o para revisar aquellos asuntos sin importancia que siguen frescos en nuestra memoria y que nos hacen sentir que veinte años no es nada.
DE POLÍTICA NI HABLAR
Los textos de este libro son una invitación a repasar la actualidad al margen de las urticantes e inútiles discusiones políticas, y con la convicción de que hay mucho mundo y mucha vida más allá de la polarización y de las pugnas ideológicas. Por eso, en estas páginas, no se habla de política. Organizadas en un recorrido cronológico de 10 años, estas columnas abordan temas de gran interés, como la tecnología, el periodismo, las comunicaciones, el fútbol y las redes sociales, con el característico estilo de Vladdo, uno de los artistas gráficos y líderes de opinión más queridos del país.
La muerte de madame Taconcitos
Está, es la primera novela del General de la Policia Nacional L.E. Gilibert, perteneciente al llamado género negro, donde narra la historia de una extraña vendedora de mueble en la sociedad bogotana, que agobiada por su baja estatura usa unos tocones enormes para poderse ver alta y un día amanece muerta en el aljibe de su casa.
