Blood and Capital: the Paramilitarization of Colombia
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Main Author: Hristov, Jasmin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, OH Ohio University Press 2014
Series:Research in international studies
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
Item Description:Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Neoliberalism or Neopoverty?; 2: The War on the Internal Enemy; 3: The Paraextension of the State's Coercive Apparatus; 4: The Debt to Humanity; 5: The Legalization of Illegality; 6: One of Colombia's "Internal Enemies"; 7: Features of the New Para-Narco-State; Notes; Bibliography; Index
In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state's coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions. Hristov demonstrates how various interrelated forms of violence by state forces, paramilitary groups, and organized crime are instrumental to the process of capital accumulation by the local elite as well as the exercise of poli
Physical Description:289 pages
ISBN:9780896804661
0896804666

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