Micro Moral Worlds of Contentious Politics:A Reconceptualization of Radical Groups and Their Intersections with One Another and the Mainstream [PDF]
The emergence, or resurgence, of radical political groups invariably provokes a struggle between activists, academics, commentators and policymakers over the particular configuration of nouns and adjectives that best correspond to the group in question ...
Busher, Joel +3 more
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Examining the Political and Military Power in Latin America: a Response to Christian Gudehus
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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El fenómeno paramilitar en Colombia
El conflicto armado interno colombiano ha significado desdeñar el origen epistémico del mismo en el problema de la tenencia de la tierra, la exclusión política, la segregación de las gentes, la discriminación y la impunidad. Así, el objetivo de este artículo es revisar crítico la historia del conflicto en Colombia, para caracterizar el fenómeno ...
Edwin Alejandro Giraldo Cerón +1 more
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A Better Deal at Half the Cost: SSA Scoring of the Cato Social Security Reform Plan [PDF]
The Social Security Administration's Office of the Actuary has officially "scored" the Individual Social Security Investment Program Act (HR 530), introduced by Reps. Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ).
Michael D. Tanner
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Oligarquía, poder político y narcotráfico en Colombia: los casos de Medellín, Santa Marta y Muzo
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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Democratización política y contra reforma paramilitar en Colombia
El trabajo analiza el paramilitarismo y las autodefensas en el contexto de democratización iniciada en 1982 con las negociaciones de paz entre gobierno y guerrilla, la apertura política y, luego, la descentralización y la primera elección de alcaldes en 1987.
Romero, Mauricio +2 more
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The DUP’s extremist links make it unfit to join a Conservative alliance [PDF]
Theresa May’s plans to broker a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party not only endanger the 1998 Belfast Agreement, writes James Hughes. They are likely to sour relations with the Republic of Ireland – just as sensitive negotiations over the border ...
Hughes, James
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Social movements, structural violence and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland: The role of Loyalist paramilitaries [PDF]
This article analyses how social movements and collective actors can affect political and social transformation in a structurally violent society using the case study of Northern Ireland.
Ferguson, Neil +2 more
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Drug Wars and the Neoliberalization of the Space in Latin America
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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Siete tesis sobre el relevo de las élites políticas.
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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