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Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America, Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt, editors
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
- Contents
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- Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin America: a survey of issues and arguments / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt
- The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings
- Policing extensions in Latin America / Piet van Reenen
- Civil defence forces: Peru's Comités de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective / Mario Fumerton and Simone Remijnse
- Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking: the Andean experience / Menno Vellinga
- Armed actors in the Colombian conflict / Francisco Leal Buitrago
- Venezuela: the re-militarization of politics / Harold A. Trinkunas
- A failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina / Marcelo Sain
- Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil / Alba Zaluar
- Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador / Wim Savenije and Chris van der Borgh
- Violence and fear in Colombia: fragmentation of space, contraction of time and forms of evasion / Luis Alberto Restrepo
- Epilogue: violence and the quest for order in contemporary Latin America / Patricio Silva
- Isbn
- 9781281259080
- Label
- Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America
- Title
- Armed actors
- Title remainder
- organised violence and state failure in Latin America
- Statement of responsibility
- Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt, editors
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- Failed states
- Failed states -- Latin America
- Geschichte 1980-2003
- Geweld
- Lateinamerika
- Latijns-Amerika
- Latin America
- Organisiertes Verbrechen
- Political stability
- Political stability -- Latin America
- Political violence
- Political violence -- Latin America
- Politiek geweld
- Politieke stabiliteit
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society
- Staat
- Violence
- Violence -- Latin America
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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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- digitized
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- Dewey number
- 303.6/098
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HN110.5.Z9
- LC item number
- V5213 2004eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- bibliography
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- Koonings, Kees
- Kruijt, Dirk
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- Violence
- Political violence
- Political stability
- Failed states
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Failed states
- Political stability
- Political violence
- Violence
- Latin America
- Organisiertes Verbrechen
- Staat
- Lateinamerika
- Geweld
- Politiek geweld
- Politieke stabiliteit
- Latijns-Amerika
- Label
- Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America, Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt, editors
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-210) and index
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- Contents
- Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin America: a survey of issues and arguments / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt -- The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings -- Policing extensions in Latin America / Piet van Reenen -- Civil defence forces: Peru's Comités de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective / Mario Fumerton and Simone Remijnse -- Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking: the Andean experience / Menno Vellinga -- Armed actors in the Colombian conflict / Francisco Leal Buitrago -- Venezuela: the re-militarization of politics / Harold A. Trinkunas -- A failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina / Marcelo Sain -- Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil / Alba Zaluar -- Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador / Wim Savenije and Chris van der Borgh -- Violence and fear in Colombia: fragmentation of space, contraction of time and forms of evasion / Luis Alberto Restrepo -- Epilogue: violence and the quest for order in contemporary Latin America / Patricio Silva
- Control code
- 371007705
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
- File format
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- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781281259080
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- computer
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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- 3-017-9781848131200
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- Electronic reproduction.
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)371007705
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America, Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt, editors
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-210) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin America: a survey of issues and arguments / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt -- The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings -- Policing extensions in Latin America / Piet van Reenen -- Civil defence forces: Peru's Comités de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective / Mario Fumerton and Simone Remijnse -- Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking: the Andean experience / Menno Vellinga -- Armed actors in the Colombian conflict / Francisco Leal Buitrago -- Venezuela: the re-militarization of politics / Harold A. Trinkunas -- A failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina / Marcelo Sain -- Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil / Alba Zaluar -- Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador / Wim Savenije and Chris van der Borgh -- Violence and fear in Colombia: fragmentation of space, contraction of time and forms of evasion / Luis Alberto Restrepo -- Epilogue: violence and the quest for order in contemporary Latin America / Patricio Silva
- Control code
- 371007705
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781281259080
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 3-017-9781848131200
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)371007705
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Electronic books
- Failed states
- Failed states -- Latin America
- Geschichte 1980-2003
- Geweld
- Lateinamerika
- Latijns-Amerika
- Latin America
- Organisiertes Verbrechen
- Political stability
- Political stability -- Latin America
- Political violence
- Political violence -- Latin America
- Politiek geweld
- Politieke stabiliteit
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society
- Staat
- Violence
- Violence -- Latin America
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