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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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Michoacanas self-defence, a regional variation of the “war on drugs trafficking” in Mexico [PDF]
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2015 The following study analyses the nature of the self-defence forces that arose in February 2013 in Michoacán, a Mexican state located on the Pacific coast.
Jesús Pérez Caballero
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Democracy and violence in Colombia during the Barco administration (1986-1990) [PDF]
With its longstanding democratic institutions and high levels of contemporary violence, Colombia represents an anomaly within Latin America. Using a contemporary historical approach, this article examines the administration of President Virgilio Barco ...
Benedict Hayes
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The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend… The Dynamics of Self Defense Forces in Irregular War: The Case of the Sons of Iraq [PDF]
, 2014 This paper assesses the effect that leveraging civilian defense force militias has on the dynamics of violence in civil war. We argue that the delegation of security and combat roles to local civilians shifts the primary targets of insurgent violence ...
Clayton, Govinda, Thomson, Andrew
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European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2017 Despite efforts employed by the Colombian state to demobilize paramilitary groups and to tackle organized crime structures since 2003, Colombia today remains characterized by a repressive apparatus of social control by paramilitary successor groups in ...
Sandra Wienand, Stiven Tremaria
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The Precarious Intimacy of Honor in Late Ottoman Accounts of Para-militarism and Banditry
European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2014 This essay sets up a dialogue between the self-narrative of an irregular cavalryman (deli) Deli Mustafa that recounts the campaigns he took part in between 1801/2 and 1825 and the corpus of Ottoman archival sources written about Kara Feyzi, an irregular ...
Tolga Uğur Esmer
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Show Me the Money! Dividend Payouts after the Bush Tax Cut [PDF]
, 2004 The centerpiece of President Bush's tax cut in 2003 was a sharp reduction in the individual dividend tax rate. The dividend tax cut was designed to spur investment and boost the stock market by increasing the after-tax return on corporate earnings, thus ...
Phil Kerpen, Stephen Moore
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Policing unacceptable protest in England and Wales: A case study of the policing of anti-fracking protests [PDF]
, 2018 In recent years public order policing policy in England and Wales has undergone significant changes. A ‘human rights compliant’ model of protest policing has been developed since 2009 and this article makes a contribution to the body of academic work ...
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Violenica y trabajadores del petroleo [PDF]
El Ágora USB, 2009 In This article shows the research results which aims at proving the dramatic situation of a region in Colombia which has become one of the war scenarios, on the part of paramilitary groups, against leaders, social activists or political militants or ...
Renan Vega Cantor
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Internal forced displacement and transformations of indigenous territorialities in Chiapas, Mexico [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesA geographical study was realized, incorporating temporal and spatial elements of the border region, on forced internal displacement (FID) in Chiapas, Mexico.
A. A. Navarro López
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