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Autore: |
Kline Harvey F.
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Titolo: |
Fighting monsters in the abyss : the second administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, 2006-2010 / / Harvey F. Kline
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Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
Disciplina: | 986.106/34 |
Soggetto topico: | Human rights - Colombia - History - 21st century |
Political violence - Colombia - History - 21st century | |
Justice, Administration of - Colombia - History - 21st century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Colombia Politics and government 1974- |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Historical background to the Colombian state in 2006 -- The concepts of the state and state building -- State building in Colombia before 1998 -- The immediate context: the Andres Pastrana Presidency and Alvaro Uribe's first -- Term -- The legitimate monopoly of force challenge -- Violence and human rights during the second Uribe term -- Failure with guerilla groups during the second Uribe term -- The justice challenge -- The conflicts of president Uribe with the judicial branch -- Enforcement of the law of justice and peace -- Unsolved problems after the paramilitary demobilization: parapolitica and new -- Emerging bands -- Into the abyss? -- The difficulties coming from allowing the ends to justify the means -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Average number of human rights violations in Colombia, 1982-90, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights -- Comparison of human rights violations in Colombia in the Barco and Gaviria years, according to the Comision Intercongregacional de Justicia y Paz -- Levels of violence during the Alvaro Uribe Velez presidency, according to the National Planning Department -- Levels of violence, January-October 2002-9, according to the Fundacion Seguridad y Democracia -- Levels of homicide and kidnapping 2002-10, according to the Ministry of Defense -- Acts of war 2002-10, according to the Ministry of Defense -- Human rights violations during the Uribe years, according to the Centro de Investigacion y Educacion Popular -- Chronology of the arguments between President Uribe and the Supreme Court -- Information about the presence of emerging criminal bands in 2010 -- E.1. Comparison of the number of troops of the Colombian Armed Forces and the FARC, 1999 and 2012. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "Fighting Monsters in the Abyss studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006-2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation's violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system"--Provided by publisher. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Fighting monsters in the abyss ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8884-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808564303321 |
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