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  • Beyond 'plata o plomo'

    Drugs and State Reconfiguration in Colombia

    by Gustavo Duncan ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
    This Element introduces the concept of oligopoly of coercion to interpretate the interaction between drug trafficking and reconfiguration of the state in Colombia. Three elements are central to this interpretation: corruption in oligopolies of coercion must be understood as a payment by drug traffickers for acting like a parallel state; the state criminalizes more drug as merchandise than drug as ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Social Capital and the Reintegration of Former Combatants

    Colombian Paramilitaries, Guerrillas and Their Leaders

    by James Meernik, Gustavo Duncan, Juan Camilo Gaviria Henao, Clarita Toro Uribe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict
    This book develops a theory of successful reintegration after intra-state conflict, centred on the development of social capital and its use by former combatants after demobilization.The book shows that those former combatants who are able to develop social ties and social capital in their communities, with their families and through involvement in peacebuilding activities will be more likely to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Drug War Mexico

    Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

    by Peter Watt, Roberto Zepeda ...
    Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become one of Mexico's biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution

    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, Rui Saraiva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations ... Read more

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  • Blood of Extraction

    Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

    by Todd Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based ... Read more

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  • Women and Wars

    Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

    Edited by Carol Cohn ...
    Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Drug War Capitalism

    by Dawn Paley ...
    Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new ... Read more

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  • Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador

    by Elisabeth Jean Wood ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not. Wood's rich tapestry of explanation is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The FARC

    The Longest Insurgency

    by Garry Leech ...
    Series series Rebels
    Garry Leech has written the definitive introduction to the FARC, examining the group's origins, aims, and ideology, and looking at its organizational and operational structures. The book also investigates the FARC's impact on local, regional, and global politics and explores its future direction.'Rebels' is an exciting and innovative new series looking at contemporary rebel groups and their place ... Read more

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  • Game Changer

    The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security

    Edited by Jonathan Paquin, Patrick James ...
    The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US policy makers focused less on how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and more on security and sovereignty.Security experts tend to view the events that followed within a bilateral framework. Game Changer broadens the canvas examining how America’s desire to keep its two borders closed ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Ottawa and Empire

    Canada and the Military Coup in Honduras

    by Tyler Shipley ...
    In June 2009, the democratically elected president of Honduras was kidnapped and whisked out of the country while the military and business elite consolidated a coup d’etat. To the surprise of many, Canada implicitly supported the coup and assisted the coup leaders in consolidating their control over the country.Since the coup, Canada has increased its presence in Honduras, even while the country ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Peacebuilding

    A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, Ako Muto ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to ... Read more

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