Systems of violence : the political economy of war and peace in Colombia /

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Author / Creator: Richani, Nazih.
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:Second edition.
Imprint: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Series:SUNY series in global politics.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • Notes to the Second Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Contours and the Theory
  • 2. Institutional Failure: Genesis of the War System
  • 3. The Military and the Comfortable Impasse
  • 4. Guerillas and the Impasse
  • 5. Paramilitaries, Organized Crime, and the Dynamics of War
  • 6. The Dominant Classes and the Prospects of Peace
  • 7. Colombia's Civil War in Comparative Perspective
  • 8. Third Parties, War Systems' Inertia, and Conflict Termination The Doomed Peace Process in Colombia, 1998-2002
  • 9. The War System: From Comfortable Impasse to Unstable Equilibrium, 2000-2012
  • 10. Bastard Rentier Capitalism: The Political Economy of Organized Crime in Colombia Sicarios and Caudillos
  • 11. Colombia's War System in Comparative Perspective
  • Appendix: Selection of the Interview Population
  • Addendum
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index