Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America /
This volume explores recent evidence of how partial state failure in Latin America interacts with new forms of organized violence, undermining the democratic consolidations of the past two decades. This?new violence? stems from a variety of social actors: drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gang...
| Други автори: | Koonings, Kees., Kruijt, Dirk. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
Zed Books,
2004.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=263812 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Armed actors. |
| Резюме: |
This volume explores recent evidence of how partial state failure in Latin America interacts with new forms of organized violence, undermining the democratic consolidations of the past two decades. This?new violence? stems from a variety of social actors: drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gangs, the socalled actores armadas, and include state-related actors like the police, military intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces. The results include both?governance voids? - domains where the legitimate state is effectively absent - and the erosion of the capacity and willingness of stat. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-210) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781848131200 1848131208 128125908X 9781281259080 |