Armed Actors : Organised Violence and State Failure in Latin America.
Kees. Koonings
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | London : : Zed Books Ltd, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (225 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 - Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin America: a survey of issues and arguments; 2 - The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms; 3 - Policing extensions in Latin America; 4 - Peru's Comités de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective; 5 - Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking: the Andean experience; 6 - Armed actors in the Colombian conflict; 7 - Venezuela: the remilitarization of politics. - 8 - A failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina9 - Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil; 10 - Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador; 11 - Violence and fear in Colombia; 12 - Epilogue: violence and the quest for order in contemporary Latin America; About the contributors; Bibliography; Index;. - This volume explores recent evidence of how partial state failure in Latin America interacts with new forms of organized violence, undermining the democratic consolidations of the past two decades. This 'new violence' stems from a variety of social actors: drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gangs, the socalled actores armadas, and include state-related actors like the police, military intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces. The results include both 'governance voids' - domains where the legitimate state is effectively absent - and the erosion of the capacity and willingness of stat
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| Emner | Failed states - Latin America
Political stability - Latin America Political violence - Latin America Violence - Latin America Vis mer... Social Science.
Social Conditions Social Sciences Sociology & Social History politisk vold latin-amerika organisert vold narkotika frykt mafia paramilitære styrker |
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| ISBN | 1842774441. - 184277445X
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