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Should history change the way we think about populism?
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 1086-1109, August 2024.Abstract This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism. We use Müller's definition, according to which populism is ‘an exclusionary form of identity politics, which is why it poses a threat to democracy’. We make three historical arguments.
Alan de Bromhead +1 more
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Examining the Political and Military Power in Latin America: a Response to Christian Gudehus
Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2018 While Gudehus’ views have opened up a necessary theoretical debate about categories used to analyze perpetration, we should be cautious when considering such arguments, particularly when examining the concept of political violence. Hence, in this essay I
Marcia Esparza
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Peace &Change, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 223-241, July 2024.Abstract Analyzing how transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms address the role of economic and political elites in contexts of widespread violence is crucial for understanding their possible transformative impact. The type of challenges faced by TJ instruments when trying to deal with economic elites involved in human rights violations also reflects the ...
Rosario Figari Layús
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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda
Sociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 2, February 2024.Abstract The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and crimes perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses and corporations, the state, international organizations, elites, as well as the state‐mediated administrative and political responses to these crimes.
Jose Atiles
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Drug Wars and the Neoliberalization of the Space in Latin America
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2019 This paper criticizes certain representations of drug trafficking and organized crime in Latin America, which discuss organized crime groups as natural State competitors and as sources of instability.
Ettore ASONI
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Oligarquía, poder político y narcotráfico en Colombia: los casos de Medellín, Santa Marta y Muzo
Colombia Internacional, 2018 The following article introduces the concept of “dilution” to show that the emergence of narcotics-trafficking and the territorial advance of paramilitarism in Colombia did not imply a total collapse or complete replacement of the traditional oligarchies.
Gustavo Duncan +2 more
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Siete tesis sobre el relevo de las élites políticas.
Colombia Internacional, 2007 In a process that dates back to the 1980’s, national elites have been replaced by regional ones. This process is associated with phenomenons such as state weakness, drug trafficking and paramilitarism, which produce deep social transformations that have ...
Francisco Leal Buitrago.
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Paramilitarism’s Long Twentieth Century [PDF]
, 2020 How did paramilitarism develop into the modern age? The twentieth century has seen forms of paramilitarism ranging from the Freikorps in Germany early on in the century, to the Sudanese Janjaweed militias a century later, and a myriad of armed groups in between.
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Paramilitarism in Fascism and the Radical Right
Fascism, 2023 Abstract The sixth annual convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies ( COMFAS ) took place from 6 to 8 October 2023 and this year was hosted by Central European University in Vienna.
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AmnisThe following article aims to address the discursive framework of the phenomenon of paramilitarism in Colombia, defined in this case as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia « AUC », whose actions were marked by nationalist, conservative, and ...
Julian Felipe Anaya Prado
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