Fighting Monsters in the Abyss : The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006-2010 /

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"Fighting Monsters in the Abyss studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006-2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation's violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system"--Provided b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kline, Harvey F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Uribe Velez, Álvaro, > 1952-
Violence.
Politics and government.
Human rights.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Colombie > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Violence > Colombie > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Human rights > Colombia > History > 21st century.
Violence > Colombia > History > 21st century.
Colombia.
Colombie > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siecle.
Colombia > Politics and government > 21st century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical background to the Colombian state in 2006
  • The concepts of the state and state building
  • State building in Colombia before 1998
  • The immediate context: the Andres Pastrana Presidency and Alvaro Uribe's first
  • Term
  • The legitimate monopoly of force challenge
  • Violence and human rights during the second Uribe term
  • Failure with guerilla groups during the second Uribe term
  • The justice challenge
  • The conflicts of president Uribe with the judicial branch
  • Enforcement of the law of justice and peace
  • Unsolved problems after the paramilitary demobilization: parapolitica and new
  • Emerging bands
  • Into the abyss?
  • The difficulties coming from allowing the ends to justify the means
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Average number of human rights violations in Colombia, 1982-90, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  • Comparison of human rights violations in Colombia in the Barco and Gaviria years, according to the Comision Intercongregacional de Justicia y Paz
  • Levels of violence during the Alvaro Uribe Velez presidency, according to the National Planning Department
  • Levels of violence, January-October 2002-9, according to the Fundacion Seguridad y Democracia
  • Levels of homicide and kidnapping 2002-10, according to the Ministry of Defense
  • Acts of war 2002-10, according to the Ministry of Defense
  • Human rights violations during the Uribe years, according to the Centro de Investigacion y Educacion Popular
  • Chronology of the arguments between President Uribe and the Supreme Court
  • Information about the presence of emerging criminal bands in 2010
  • E.1. Comparison of the number of troops of the Colombian Armed Forces and the FARC, 1999 and 2012.

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