Colombia Besieged

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106017974376

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Colombia Besieged by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevin Jack Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351292788

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Snow Job by Kevin Jack Riley Pdf

Cocaine has had a long and prominent position in the history of American substance abuse. As far back as the late 1800s cocaine was commonly found hi patent medicines, elixirs, and, astonishingly, in the earliest versions of Coca-Cola. Eventually, the potency of cocaine was recognized and its purveyors came under gradual regulation. Events hi the early 1900s kept cocaine use down until World War II, but the extensive drug use of the 1960s once again sparked a national temperance movement. Created in 1989, the Office of National Drug Control Policy maintains responsibility for coordinating and monitoring the nation's countemarcotics policy. But responsibility for coordination and monitoring is not the same thing as control. In Snow Job? Kevin Jack Riley examines source country control policies—policies intended to control the production and export of cocaine from Latin America—and their limitations. Part I draws together drug use, drug production, and drug control policies hi an analytic framework. It goes on to examine the recent history of U.S. drug control policies, source country control policies, the ways hi which cocaine prices affect cocaine use, how cocaine is made, and the vulnerable points in its production. Part II examines the economic effects that production and controls exert on the sources of cocaine—Bolivia and Peru—and probes the Colombian drug lord connection. Part III prescribes an appropriate path for source country cocaine policies and examines their implications for two other widely smuggled drugs, heroin and marijuana. Riley disagrees with analysts who believe that source country control policies can lead to permanent victory hi the war against cocaine, because of the potentially high costs associated with implementing source country control policies on a large scale. He suggests a better strategy would be one that recognizes the severe limits facing interdiction, eradication, and other source country policies, and instead focuses on directing source country resources where they will be most useful. This necessitates defining a regional strategy that elevates political stability and institution building, and demotes traditional countemarcotics objectives. Snow Job? offers original thinking and practical approaches to a multidimensional world problem and will be of interest to policymakers, political scientists, sociologists, and law enforcement officials.

Author : Virginia Marie Bouvier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil society
ISBN : PURD:32754075568935

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Civil Society Under Siege in Colombia by Virginia Marie Bouvier Pdf

Author : William Aviles
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791482049

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Global Capitalism, Democracy, and Civil-Military Relations in Colombia by William Aviles Pdf

Through the lens of global capitalism theory, William Avilés examines democratization and civil-military relations in Colombia to explain how social and international forces led to the ostensibly contradictory outcome of democratic and economic reform coinciding with political repression. Focusing on the administrations in power from 1990 to the present, Avilés argues that the reduction in the institutional powers of the military within the state reflected changes in the structure of the global economy, the emergence of globalizing technocrats and politicians, and shifts in U.S. foreign policy strategies toward "democracy promotion." These same factors explain Colombia's establishment of a low-intensity democracy—a structure of elite rule in which the strategies of coercion (state and para-state repression) and consensus (competitive elections, civilian control over the military) maintain control and legitimacy. In the age of capitalist globalization, a low-intensity democracy is most concomitant with neoliberalism, establishing the political and economic environment most suitable to the investments of transnational corporations.

Author : Basar Baysal
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498586894

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Securitization and Desecuritization of FARC in Colombia by Basar Baysal Pdf

Securitization and Desecuritization of FARC in Colombia introduces a new dual framework for securitization, called “dual securitization,” which regards securitization as a whole process that ends after the desecuritization of the given issue. Başar Baysal examines this process in three phases: (1) definition, (2) construction, and (3) (in)securitization-in-action. Additionally, the dual securitization framework takes both bottom-up and top-down characteristics of the process of securitization into consideration and examines both macro-level decision-making processes and discursive efforts and micro-level security practices. This book looks at the Colombian Conflict, and the empirical part of the study examines the contextual factors that facilitated the dual securitization of FARC and the Colombian State; definition, construction and insecuritization-in-action phases of the dual securitization process; and the ongoing process of desecuritization in Colombia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Colombia
ISBN : MINN:31951D003658401

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Colombia, 1998 Post Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doug Stokes
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136120

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America's Other War by Doug Stokes Pdf

This controversial book maintains that in Colombia the US has long supported a pervasive campaign of state violence directed against both armed insurgents and a wide range of unarmed progressive social forces. While the context may change from one decade to the next, the basic policies remain the same: maintain the pro-US Colombian state, protect US economic interests and preserve strategic access to oil. Colombia is now the third largest recipient of US military aid in the world, and the largest by far in Latin America. Using extensive declassified documents, this book shows that the so-called "war on drugs", and now the new war on terror in Colombia are actually part of a long-term Colombian "war of state terror" that predates the end of the Cold War with US policy contributing directly to the human rights situation in Colombia today.

Author : Andrés Cendales,Angela Pinto,Jhon James Mora,Hugo Guerrero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030130091

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Analytical Narrative on Subnational Democracies in Colombia by Andrés Cendales,Angela Pinto,Jhon James Mora,Hugo Guerrero Pdf

This book examines the state-building process in Colombia, specifically in the Pacific Coast region. Using the regionally isolated and historically neglected Pacific Coast as a case study, the authors analyze the Colombian nation-building and democratic processes, applying diverse methodology and an interdisciplinary focus. The early chapters lay the foundation of the text through the historical reconstruction of political turmoil in Colombia and the birth of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and its confrontations with the government establishment. It then moves to a public choice analysis of public policy and clientelism within local democracies. The later chapters test the theoretical models using regional information about governability and election result patterns and discuss a further research agenda. Grounded in behavioral models with clearly defined agents, contingency plans, and outputs, this book will be of use to students studying Latin American political science and public policy, as well as researchers interested in state and nation-building and local governance.

Author : Bert Ruiz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786450725

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The Colombian Civil War by Bert Ruiz Pdf

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.

Author : James L. Zackrison,Eileen Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Colombia
ISBN : MINN:30000010506818

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Colombian Sovereignty Under Siege by James L. Zackrison,Eileen Bradley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UOM:39015081475876

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Post Report by Anonim Pdf

Series of pamphlets on countries of the world; revisions issued.

Author : Danielle Watson,Sara N. Amin,Wendell C. Wallace,Oluwagbenga (Michael) Akinlabi,Juan Carlos Ruiz-Vásquez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000781946

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Policing the Global South by Danielle Watson,Sara N. Amin,Wendell C. Wallace,Oluwagbenga (Michael) Akinlabi,Juan Carlos Ruiz-Vásquez Pdf

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the ‘periphery’. Criminological knowledge depolarisation underscores a conscious effort by scholars from the Global South to increase intellectual knowledge focused on developing context-specific responses to issues not aligned to Northern ideological positions and specific to the non-Northern context. Such shifts draw attention to the expanse of spaces beyond Northern centres rife with challenges unlike any specific to those experienced or conceptualised by scholars from the Global North with an applied Northern criminological lens. Applying a postcolonial lens to empirical knowledge from country-specific cases in former colonies in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Latin America, this book examines how policing issues not aligned to Northern ideological positions and specific to non-Northern contexts are addressed. The primary purpose is to share innovations in the field of policing – service provision, threats to security, crime responses, justice and international trends – developed in postcolonial developing-country contexts. Given the aim of the book and the contributors’ own research on issues of policing across the globe, it discusses themes including but not limited to the colonial legacies and their impact on policing; how plural regulatory systems and partnerships are navigated by the police; the linkages between access to justice, community perceptions, and police legitimacy; innovations and challenges in organisational reform, crime prevention, and community partnerships; and the expanding roles of police organisations in the Global South. While each chapter presents a policing issue in a country within a specific part of the Global South, the book highlights how important it is to frame responses based on contextual realities informed by an awareness of the past and present, with a goal of informing the future. Delivering a much-needed introduction to those specialising in policing in developing countries, this book is invaluable reading for academics and students of criminology, criminal justice, governance, policy, and IR, as well as professionals in policing organizations across the globe.

Author : James T. Lawrence
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1590339347

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Human Rights in the Americas by James T. Lawrence Pdf

The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. This book surveys the countries of the Americas and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.

Author : Katherine Isbester
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442601963

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The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America by Katherine Isbester Pdf

What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dictatorships with electoral democracies, solid economic growth (leading up to the global credit crisis), and increased efforts by the state to extend the benefits of peace and prosperity to the poor, democracy - as a political system - is experiencing declining support, and support for authoritarianism is on the rise.

Author : Roberto Gargarella,Siri Gloppen,Elin Skaar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135756161

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Democratization and the Judiciary by Roberto Gargarella,Siri Gloppen,Elin Skaar Pdf

This title examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa, focusing on their ability to hold political power-holders accountable when they act outside their constitutionally defined powers. The book also issues a warning: there are problems inherent in the current global move towards strong constitutional government, where increasingly strong powers are placed in the hands of judges who themselves are not made accountable.