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Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2011
The modern world, configured on the paradigm of norm and discipline, is now interpreted by means of Benjamin’s notion of exception. Exceptionality is political and manifests itself in the globalized world as militarized forces. Lund focuses on the paramilitary phenomenon to explore how it acts upon contemporary life, invisible and naturalized.
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The modern world, configured on the paradigm of norm and discipline, is now interpreted by means of Benjamin’s notion of exception. Exceptionality is political and manifests itself in the globalized world as militarized forces. Lund focuses on the paramilitary phenomenon to explore how it acts upon contemporary life, invisible and naturalized.
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Paramilitarization of the Economy
Armed Forces & Society, 2012The Basij, a massive Iranian paramilitary organization, has played a crucial role in the country’s politics, economy, and society at large for the past two decades. While the Basij’s increased formal involvement in the Iranian economy was initially meant to guarantee the welfare of its personnel, the Basij has since extended its influence to every ...
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2020
Abstract This book is analysing the origins and manifestations of paramilitary violence in three neighbouring Balkan countries—Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania after the First World War. It shows the role of paramilitarism in internal as well as in external policies in all three above-mentioned states, and it focuses on the main actors ...
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Abstract This book is analysing the origins and manifestations of paramilitary violence in three neighbouring Balkan countries—Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania after the First World War. It shows the role of paramilitarism in internal as well as in external policies in all three above-mentioned states, and it focuses on the main actors ...
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El fenomeno paramilitar en Colombia
2019El fenómeno paramilitar en Colombia. Guía pedagógica y metodológica (CNMH, 2021) es un recurso didáctico dirigido a estudiantes de educación media (grados 10.º y 11.º), jóvenes de 15 años en adelante y público universitario, así como a docentes que busquen abordar el conflicto armado colombiano en el aula la cartilla se publica bajo licencia Creative ...
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2017
From a theoretical perspective, Kalivas and Arjona (as cited in Rangel, 2007) have suggested that 'paramilitary forces are armed groups formed outside of a State's formal structure. From an etiological standpoint, it can be argued that paramilitarism is not such a recent phenomenon as is usually assumed.
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From a theoretical perspective, Kalivas and Arjona (as cited in Rangel, 2007) have suggested that 'paramilitary forces are armed groups formed outside of a State's formal structure. From an etiological standpoint, it can be argued that paramilitarism is not such a recent phenomenon as is usually assumed.
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Multidirectional War and Paramilitarism
2018This chapter, by following the course of military actions in Lithuania in 1919, explores the emergence of various military and paramilitary groups that engaged in different types of violence. The focus here is on the entanglement of three types of actors: those that performed state-sanctioned violence; those that acted as semi-independent paramilitary ...
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Counterinsurgent Paramilitarism: A Philippine Case Study
Journal of Peace Research, 1992Paramilitarism represents a common mode of regime response to insurgency. Two competing perspectives, the benevolent and the critical, offer differing predictions about paramilitary behaviors and public response. The study maps out the theoretical issues and conducts an empirical analysis of counterinsurgent paramilitarism in the Philippines in 1987 ...
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Organized Crime, the State, and Paramilitarism
2020How are paramilitarism and crime related to each other? Empirical studies of paramilitarism make abundantly clear that (organized) crime plays an important role in paramilitarism: the trade in illicit commodities and services and the fact that criminal gangs operate in secrecy are two phenomena that are closely related to paramilitary activity.
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Paramilitarism and Colombia's Low-Intensity Democracy
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2006In the late 1980s and early 1990s political liberalisation, including the reduction of the military's institutional prerogatives, occurred in Colombia despite the increasing strength of an internal insurgency. Why would Colombia's national political elite weaken the institutional role of the armed forces in the context of an escalating internal war ...
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