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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827336103321

Autore

Richani Nazih

Titolo

Systems of Violence, Second Edition [[electronic resource] ] : The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia / / Nazih Richani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4619-3541-5

1-4384-4695-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in global politics

Disciplina

303.6409

Soggetti

Violence - Economic aspects - Colombia

Violence - Colombia

Electronic books.

Colombia Social conditions

Colombia Politics and government 1974-

Colombia Economic conditions 1970-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Prologue""; ""Notes to the Second Edition""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: The Contours and the Theory""; ""Chapter 2: Institutional Failure: Genesis of the War System""; ""Chapter 3: The Military and the Comfortable Impasse""; ""Chapter 4: Guerillas and the Impasse""; ""Chapter 5: Paramilitaries, Organized Crime, and the Dynamics of War""; ""Chapter 6: The Dominant Classes and the Prospects of Peace""; ""Chapter 7: Colombia�s Civil War in Comparative Perspective""

""Chapter 8: Third Parties, War Systems� Inertia, and Conflict Termination: The Doomed Peace Process in Colombia, 1998�2002""""Chapter 9: The War System: From Comfortable Impasse to Unstable Equilibrium, 2000�2012""; ""Chapter 10: Bastard Rentier Capitalism: The Political Economy of Organized Crime in Colombia Sicarios and Caudillos""; ""Chapter 11: Colombia�s War System in Comparative Perspective""; ""Appendix: Selection of the Interview Population""; ""Addendum""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""SUNY series in



Global Politics, List of Titles""

Sommario/riassunto

Expanded new edition of an important study of the protracted violence in Colombia.