"In Armed Actors, Latin Americanist scholars explore the recent evidence relating to the ways in which partial state failure in the continent is interacting with new types of organized violence, thereby undermining the process of democratic consolidation that has characterized Latin America ove...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London [u.a.] Zed Books 2004
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1980-2003 Stabilité politique - Amérique latine Violence - Amérique latine Violence politique - Amérique latine Violence > Latin America Political violence > Latin America Political stability > Latin America Staat Organisiertes Verbrechen Staatsversagen Gewaltkriminalität Lateinamerika Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	"In Armed Actors, Latin Americanist scholars explore the recent evidence relating to the ways in which partial state failure in the continent is interacting with new types of organized violence, thereby undermining the process of democratic consolidation that has characterized Latin America over the past two decades. Case studies from Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and other countries, including El Salvador, show that this 'new violence' stems from a heterogeneous variety of social actors including drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gangs (collectively referred to as actores armadas), as well as from state-related actors like the police, military intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	X, 214 S. Ill.
ISBN:	1842774441 184277445X