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Armed Actors
Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America
By: Kees Koonings (Editor), Dirk Kruijt (Editor)
eBook | 12 November 2021 | Edition Number 1
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In this volume, 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. This 'new violence' stems - as this book's case studies from Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and other countries, including El Salvador, show - from a heterogeneous variety of social actors including drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gangs (collectively referred to as actores armadas), as well as state-related actors like the police, military intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces.
These armed actors are reproducing organized social and political violence beyond the confines of democratic politics and civil society. The results, as the authors warn, include both 'governance voids' - domains where the legitimate state is effectively absent in the face of armed actors prevailing by force - and an erosion of the capacity and willingness of state officials themselves to abide by the rule of law. These tendencies, in turn, pave the way for a possible reinstallation of authoritarian regimes under the control of politicized armies or, at the very least, the spread of state violence in one form or another.
Why these tendencies need to be taken so seriously is, the authors argue, because of the deeper social roots underlying them - notably the failure of neoliberal economic policies and weakened state structures to deliver the jobs, standards of living and social services every democratic citizenry has a right to expect. The Argentinian collapse and persistent Colombian and Venezuelan crises receive special attention in this regard.
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- Introduction - Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt
- 1. Armed actors, organised violence and state failure in Latin America: a survey of issues and arguments - Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt
- 2. The military and their shadowy brothers in arms - Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings
- 3. Policing extensions in Latin America - Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt
- 4. Civil defence forces: Peru's Comites de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective - Mario Fumerton and Simone Remijnse
- 5. Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking: the Andean experience - Menno Vellinga
- 6. Armed actors in the Colombian conflict - Francisco Leal Buitrago
- 7. Venezuela: the re-militarization of politics - Harold A. Trinkunas
- 8. A failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina - Marcelo Sain
- 9. Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil - Alba Zaluar
- 10. Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador - Wim Savenije and Chris van der Borgh
- 11. Violence and fear in Colombia: fragmentation of space, contraction of time and forms of evasion - Luis Alberto Restrepo
- Epilogue : violence and the quest for order in contemporary Latin America - Patricio Silva
ISBN: 9781848136151
ISBN-10: 1848136153
Published: 12th November 2021
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 224
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Edition Number: 1
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