Systems of Violence, Second Edition : The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia.

Expanded new edition of an important study of the protracted violence in Colombia.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Richani, Nazih.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013.
Series:SUNY Series in Global Politics Ser.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • Notes to the Second Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: The Contours and the Theory
  • Chapter 2: Institutional Failure: Genesis of the War System
  • Chapter 3: The Military and the Comfortable Impasse
  • Chapter 4: Guerillas and the Impasse
  • Chapter 5: Paramilitaries, Organized Crime, and the Dynamics of War
  • Chapter 6: The Dominant Classes and the Prospects of Peace
  • Chapter 7: Colombia's Civil War in Comparative Perspective
  • Chapter 8: Third Parties, War Systems' Inertia, and Conflict Termination: The Doomed Peace Process in Colombia, 1998-2002
  • Chapter 9: The War System: From Comfortable Impasse to Unstable Equilibrium, 2000-2012
  • Chapter 10: Bastard Rentier Capitalism: The Political Economy of Organized Crime in Colombia Sicarios and Caudillos
  • Chapter 11: Colombia's War System in Comparative Perspective
  • Appendix: Selection of the Interview Population
  • Addendum
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • SUNY series in Global Politics, List of Titles.