The article examines the links between paramilitary groups and the Colombian state within a context of pervasive violence. Colombia represents a particularly interesting case as high-intensity violence is accompanied by the preservation of a relatively strong institutional framework. Most interpretations of this relationship consider it to be either a sign of state weakness or a centralized strategy to outsource violence. Taking a different stance, the paper argues that the existence of paramilitary groups compels us to analyze government through practices vis-à-vis the treatment of violence. A policy linking private security and counterinsurgency, crafted in the early 1990s and known as Convivir, provides an illustration of this approach.E...
Throughout Latin America, processes of democratization have coincided with increasing levels of viol...
This article analyses the informal practices that derive from the implication of actors armed in the...
This article analyses the informal practices that derive from the implication of actors armed in the...
The article examines the links between paramilitary groups and the Colombian state within a context ...
The article examines the links between paramilitary groups and the Colombian state within a context ...
This article begins with a brief reflection on the political course of the country, which emerge the...
This article begins with a brief consideration on the political context of the country, in which the...
Throughout Latin America, processes of democratization have coincided with increasing levels of viol...
The armed conflict in Colombia was increased by the implementation of the Security Statu...
This article attempts to provide an overview of “A para-state in Colombia”, a research conducted by ...
This article shows the research results which aims at proving the dramatic situation of a region in ...
This article attempts to provide an overview of “A para-state in Colombia”, a research conducted by ...
This article shows the research results which aims at proving the dramatic situation of a region in ...
In the decades from 1982 to 2002 Colombia had been consolidating itself as a democratic state. Howev...
This article begins with a brief consideration on the political context of the country, in which the...
Throughout Latin America, processes of democratization have coincided with increasing levels of viol...
This article analyses the informal practices that derive from the implication of actors armed in the...
This article analyses the informal practices that derive from the implication of actors armed in the...
The article examines the links between paramilitary groups and the Colombian state within a context ...
The article examines the links between paramilitary groups and the Colombian state within a context ...
This article begins with a brief reflection on the political course of the country, which emerge the...
This article begins with a brief consideration on the political context of the country, in which the...
Throughout Latin America, processes of democratization have coincided with increasing levels of viol...
The armed conflict in Colombia was increased by the implementation of the Security Statu...
This article attempts to provide an overview of “A para-state in Colombia”, a research conducted by ...
This article shows the research results which aims at proving the dramatic situation of a region in ...
This article attempts to provide an overview of “A para-state in Colombia”, a research conducted by ...
This article shows the research results which aims at proving the dramatic situation of a region in ...
In the decades from 1982 to 2002 Colombia had been consolidating itself as a democratic state. Howev...
This article begins with a brief consideration on the political context of the country, in which the...
Throughout Latin America, processes of democratization have coincided with increasing levels of viol...
This article analyses the informal practices that derive from the implication of actors armed in the...
This article analyses the informal practices that derive from the implication of actors armed in the...