General Information

Language

English.

Published

London ; New York : Zed Books, 2004.

Physical Description

x, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Koonings, Kees.

Kruijt, Dirk.

Subjects

Subject

Violence > Latin America.

Political violence > Latin America.

Political stability > Latin America.

Failed states > Latin America.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt, editors.

Content

Introduction -- Armed Actors, Organised 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 Comites 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 Argentine Case / 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

1842774441

184277445

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	303.6/098 KOO		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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