Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America /: organised violence and state failure in Latin America. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt, editors.
• Other Names: Koonings, Kees; Kruijt, Dirk
• Contents: Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin America: a survey of issues and arguments / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt -- The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings -- Policing extensions in Latin America / Piet van Reenen -- Civil defence forces: Peru's Comités de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective / Mario Fumerton and Simone Remijnse -- Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking: the Andean experience / Menno Vellinga -- Armed actors in the Colombian conflict / Francisco Leal Buitrago -- Venezuela: the re-militarization of politics / Harold A. Trinkunas -- A failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina / Marcelo Sain -- Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil / Alba Zaluar -- Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador / Wim Savenije and Chris van der Borgh -- 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 303.6/098; Violence -- Latin America; Political violence -- Latin America; Political stability -- Latin America; Failed states -- Latin America; Violence -- Amérique latine; Violence politique -- Amérique latine; Stabilité politique -- Amérique latine; Failed states; Political stability; Political violence; Violence; Organisiertes Verbrechen; Staat; Gewaltkriminalität; Staatsversagen; Latin America; Lateinamerika; Lateinamerika; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848136151; 1848136153
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.