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Countering Threats to Security and Stability in a Failing State

Author : Peter DeShazo
Publisher : CSIS
ISBN 13 : 0892065893
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Countering Threats to Security and Stability in a Failing State written by Peter DeShazo and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report from the CSIS Americas Program examines developments in Colombia to assess the lessons to be learned from that country's impressive recovery. The report analyzes why Colombia was on the road to possible state failure, how the process was reversed, and what will be needed to sustain progress. It also considers the role of U.S. assistance to Colombia since approval of the "Plan Colombia" special supplemental in 2000. The report highlights practical lessons from Colombia as a case study in countering challenges to security and stability in a weakened state. It will serve as an important point of reference for policymakers on Colombia-specific issues - as well as for those addressing challenges such as an inadequate state presence, large ungoverned spaces, weak rule of law, insurgencies, and a large-scale narcotics economy in other parts of the developing world.

Crimilegal Orders, Governance and Armed Conflict

Author : Markus Schultze-Kraft
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030034429
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Crimilegal Orders, Governance and Armed Conflict written by Markus Schultze-Kraft and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensively laying out the concept of crimilegality, this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world. In hybrid crimilegal orders the moral, normative and social boundaries between legality and illegality-criminality are blurred, and through the violation of the official law, the illegal-criminal sphere of social life becomes legitimate and morally acceptable, while the legal turns illegitimate and immoral. Several examples of crimilegality and crimilegal governance in Colombia and Nigeria, including in relation to armed conflict termination, are used to illustrate these complex processes.

The OECD DAC Handbook on Security System Reform Supporting Security and Justice

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264027866
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The OECD DAC Handbook on Security System Reform Supporting Security and Justice written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD DAC Handbook on Security System Reform: Supporting Security and Justice contains valuable tools to help encourage a dialogue on security and justice issues and to support a security system reform (SSR) process through the assessment, design and implementation phases.

Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations

Author : Jorge I. Domínguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317552814
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations by : Jorge I. Domínguez

Download or read book Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations written by Jorge I. Domínguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This unique collection identifies broad changes in the international system that have had significant effects in the Western Hemisphere, including issues of politics and economics, the securitization of U.S. foreign policy, balancing U.S. primacy, the wider impact of the world beyond the Americas, especially the rise of China, and the complexities of relationships between neighbors. The second edition of Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations focuses on U.S. neighbors near and far —Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Each chapter addresses a country’s relations with the United States, and each considers themes that are unique to that country’s bilateral relations as well as those themes that are more general to the relations of Latin America as a whole. The book also features new chapters on transnational criminal violence, the Latino diasporas in the United States, and U.S.-Latin American migration. This cohesive and accessible volume is required reading for Latin American politics students and scholars alike.

Latin America and the Illusion of Peace

Author : David R. Mares
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351224409
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Latin America and the Illusion of Peace written by David R. Mares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores interstate conflict and its dynamics in the context of Latin Americas contemporary conflict management experience. The myth of Latin America as a region of peace means that each time the use of force rises to the level of global attention (e.g., Ecuador-Peru 1995 or Colombia-Ecuador 2008) analysts and the press ask, "how could that happen here?" Yet the official uses of military force in interstate relations are significantly more prevalent than most analysts within and outside the region understand, and the region is facing new and potentially destabilizing challenges. It is the contention of this book that mitigating the threat raised by militarized interstate relations requires understanding the various ways in which military force can be employed short of war; this in turn requires illuminating the decision making process that produces militarization of a disagreement, considering options for dissuading the decision makers from choosing to militarize and limiting escalations when militarization does occur.

Ungoverned Territories

Author : Angel Rabasa
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833042653
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Ungoverned Territories written by Angel Rabasa and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a two-tiered framework areas applied to eight case studies from around the globe, the authors of this ground-breaking work seek to understand the conditions that give rise to ungoverned territories and make them conducive to a terrorist or insurgent presence. They also develop strategies to improve the U.S. ability to mitigate their effects on U.S. security interests.

Global Capitalism, Democracy, and Civil-Military Relations in Colombia

Author : William Avil?s
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791467008
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Capitalism, Democracy, and Civil-Military Relations in Colombia by : William Avil?s

Download or read book Global Capitalism, Democracy, and Civil-Military Relations in Colombia written by William Avil?s and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the connections between globalization and democratization in Columbia.

American Crossings

Author : Maiah Jaskoski
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418312
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book American Crossings written by Maiah Jaskoski and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who—and what—moves from one country to another has real implications for security studies, international relations, and the ideal of democracy. In summer 2014, US agencies responsible for the border with Mexico were overwhelmed by tens of thousands of unaccompanied children arriving from Central America. Unprepared to address this unexpected kind of migrant, the US government deployed troops to carry out a new border mission: the feeding, care, and housing of this wave of children. This event highlights the complex social, economic, and political issues that arise along borders. In American Crossings, nine scholars consider the complicated modern history of borders in the Western Hemisphere, examining borders as geopolitical boundaries, key locations for internal security, spaces for international trade, and areas where national and community identities are defined. Among the provocative questions raised are: Why are Peru and Chile inclined to legalize territory disputes through the International Court of Justice, undermining their militaries? Why has economic integration in the "Tri-Border Area" of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay increased illicit trade supporting transnational terrorist groups? And how has a weak Ecuadorian presence at the EcuadorColombia border encouraged Colombian guerrillas to enforce the international borderline?

Returns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict

Author : David James Cantor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364366
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Returns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict written by David James Cantor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2017, it was estimated that over 40 million people were displaced within their own countries by conflict and violence across at least 56 countries worldwide. Solutions to the epidemic of forced internal displacement are frequently premised on the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Indeed, as a characteristic need of IDPs, such returns benefit from a special protection framework developed by IDP protection instruments such as the Guiding Principles. However, the legal status of those instruments remains ambiguous, generating attendant questions about the congruity of the IDP return framework with existing international law. Moreover, limited knowledge exists on its practical implementation. As a result, both inter-national agencies and individual scholars have repeatedly issued urgent calls for comprehensive and grounded theoretical investigation into this topic. This book answers those long-standing calls for research by presenting a detailed study of the return of conflict-afffected IDPs under international law.

Globalization and Military Power in the Andes

Author : W. Avilés
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230115446
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Military Power in the Andes written by W. Avilés and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of comparative case studies, the author demonstrates that the conflicts and struggles over capitalist globalization in the Andes are intricately connected to the political power of the military in the region.

Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes

Author : Maiah Jaskoski
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409070
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes written by Maiah Jaskoski and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with active-duty and retired military officers in Ecuador and Peru shed light on the evolution of Andean civil-military relations, with implications for democratization. Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes challenges conventional theories regarding military behavior in post-transition democracies. Through a deeply researched comparative analysis of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian armies, Maiah Jaskoski argues that militaries are concerned more with the predictability of their missions than with sovereignty objectives set by democratically elected leaders. Jaskoski gathers data from interviews with public officials, private sector representatives, journalists, and more than 160 Peruvian and Ecuadorian officers from all branches of the military. The results are surprising. Ecuador’s army, for example, fearing the uncertainty of border defense against insurgent encroachment in the north, neglected this duty, thereby sacrificing the state’s security goals, acting against government orders, and challenging democratic consolidation. Instead of defending the border, the army has opted to carry out policing functions within Ecuador, such as combating the drug trade. Additionally, by ignoring its duty to defend sovereignty, the army is available to contract out its policing services to paying, private companies that, relative to the public, benefit disproportionately from army security. Jaskoski also looks briefly at this theory's implications for military responsiveness to government orders in democratic Bolivia, Colombia, and Venezuela, and in newly formed democracies more broadly.

The Second World

Author : Parag Khanna
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812979842
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Second World written by Parag Khanna and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Second World, scholar Parag Khanna, chosen as one of Esquire’s 75 Most Influential People of the Twenty-First Century, reveals how America’s future depends on its ability to compete with the European Union and China to forge relationships with the Second World, the pivotal regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, the Middle East, and East Asia that are growing in influence and economic strength. Informed, witty, and armed with a traveler’s intuition for blending into diverse cultures, Khanna depicts second-world societies from the inside out, observing how globalization divides them into winners and losers–and shows how China, Europe, and America use their unique imperial gravities to pull the second-world countries into their orbits. Along the way, Khanna explains how Arabism and Islamism compete for the Arab soul, reveals how Iran and Saudi Arabia play the superpowers against one another, unmasks Singapore’s inspirational role in East Asia, and psychoanalyzes the second-world leaders whose decisions are reshaping the balance of power.

War Without Borders

Author : Gabriel Marcella
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book War Without Borders written by Gabriel Marcella and published by Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprotected borders are a serious threat to the security of a number of states around the globe. The combination of weak states, ungoverned space, terrorism, and international criminal networks make a mockery of the Westphalian system of international order. Latin American countries are experiencing all of these maladies in varying degrees. The Andean region is under assault by a different kind of war that defies borders. In this context, Dr. Gabriel Marcella analyzes the lessons to be learned from the Colombian attack against the clandestine camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which was located at an isolated area within Ecuador on March 1, 2008. This single incident and its aftermath had profound reverberations throughout the Hemisphere. The events leading to the attack illuminate the vulnerabilities of states, societies, and the international community to the actions of substate groups ocnducting criminal activities. Accordingly, the hemispheric community of nations needs to develop better ways to anticipate and resolve conflicts. The United States plays a critical role in the emerging security environment of the Andean region. Yet a superpower is often unaware of hte immense influence it hasa with respect to small countries like Ecuador, which is trying to extricate itself from becoming a failed state. The author recommends that the United States manage its complex agenda with sensitivity and balance its support for Ecuador. This monograph is a valuable contribution to the strategy debate on how the United States can forge stronger cooperation and mutual support with Latin American partners.

The Markets for Force

Author : Molly Dunigan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246861
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Markets for Force written by Molly Dunigan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Markets for Force examines and compares the markets for private military and security contractors in twelve states: Argentina, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, China, Canada, and the United States. Editors Molly Dunigan and Ulrich Petersohn argue that the global market for force is actually a conglomeration of many types of markets that vary according to local politics and geostrategic context. Each case study investigates the particular characteristics of the region's market, how each market evolved into its current form, and what consequence the privatized market may have for state military force and the provision of public safety. The comparative standpoint sheds light on better-known markets but also those less frequently studied, such as the state-owned and -managed security companies in China, militaries working for private sector extractive industries in Ecuador and Peru, and the ways warlord forces overlap with private security companies in Afghanistan. An invaluable resource for scholars and policymakers alike, The Markets for Force offers both an empirical analysis of variations in private military and security companies across the globe and deeper theoretical knowledge of how such markets develop. Contributors: Olivia Allison, Oldich Bure, Jennifer Catallo, Molly Dunigan, Scott Fitzsimmons, Maiah Jaskoski, Kristina Mani, Carlos Ortiz, Ulrich Petersohn, Jake Sherman, Christopher Spearin.

Historical Dictionary of Colombia

Author : Harvey F. Kline
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879557
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Colombia written by Harvey F. Kline and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Colombia covers the history of Colombia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Colombia.

PSI Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence [2 Volumes]

Author : Stuart Farson
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book PSI Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence [2 Volumes] written by Stuart Farson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at national approaches to security and intelligence and the resulting impact on international cooperation. This two-volume work provides chapters on national cultures of security and intelligence that address common questions and themes.

Small Arms Survey 2005

Author : Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Arms Survey 2005 written by Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War is dedicated to issues surrounding armed conflict, including the sourcing of weapons to conflict areas, weapons use, conflict deaths, and post-conflict disarmament initiatives. This edition also provides an overview of small arms ammunition as well asnew and updated information on small arms production, stockpiles, transfers, and international measures. It presents two case studies: one exploring the concept of 'gun culture' in Kosovo, the other focusing on the Central African Republic. In addition, this volume surveys representations of smallarms and armed violence in contemporary art.The Small Arms Survey is the principal international source of impartial and reliable information on all aspects of small arms. Its blend of information and analysis makes it an indispensable resource for policy-makers, officials, and non-governmental organizations. The Small Arms Survey is anindependent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. The project has an international staff with expertise in security studies, political science, international public policy, law, economics, development studies, conflict resolution, andsociology, who work closely with a worldwide network of researchers and partners.