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Abstract Do authoritarian regimes adopt similar or equal policies? Despite the large literature on policy convergence in democracies, we know little about whether and to what extent authoritarian regimes follow analogous paths. This article argues that similar policy legacy, political and institutional context, and international influences lead to ...
Angelo Vito Panaro
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Abstract During the COVID‐19 pandemic, some groups and individuals rearticulated state power through conspiracy theories. Despite their fringe status, conspiracy theory beliefs can directly animate citizen's engagements with institutions. Drawing on Barkun's ‘conventional’ and ‘stigmatised’ knowledge types, we analyse the appearance of conspiracism in ...
Ben Lyall, Patrick Marple
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Mexico's Dirty War: A Reassessment
Recent scholarship has found that Mexico's dirty war was rooted in existing, but also limited, violent practices established during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, these limits began to disappear. But it was not until the early 1970s when the state had sufficient capacity to launch counterinsurgency tactics throughout the nation.
Alex Aviña, Benjamin T. Smith
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Citizen security in Mexico: Legacies of distrust
Abstract The article provides a backdrop to citizen security in Mexico, presenting a critique that challenges the democratic bases of citizen security and offering an alternate genealogy of its analytical and practical implementations. On the one hand, citizen security emerges not only from a violent legacy of national security but also amid larger ...
R. Guy Emerson
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Threats to conservation from national security interests
Abstract There is a growing trend of nation states invoking national security and emergency declarations to build state‐sponsored infrastructure projects for border defense, energy production, and transportation. Established laws, regulations, and agreements for the protection of nature and cultural heritage within and between countries are becoming ...
Katarzyna Nowak +5 more
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Adecuación de la defensa a la gobernabilidad democrática en América del Sur
Este artículo se divide en cuatro partes. En la primera se analiza la evolución de los conceptos de seguridad y defensa, partiendo de la mirada tradicional y sus transformaciones, pasando de una mirada de seguridad y defensa frente a amenazas externas ...
Alejo Vargas Velásquez
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Since the 2016 Havana Peace Accord (HPA), for many Colombians security has hardly improved. This article argues that this is largely due to socially rooted marginalisation that constrains citizen participation and contributes to entrenched insecurity in the country, especially its border regions.
Dáire McGill +3 more
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¿Reelección de la Seguridad Democrática?
Este artículo presenta una discusión, basada en evidencia y desde un enfoque de políticas públicas, sobre la política de Seguridad Democrática. El texto desarrolla un debate informado sobre la conceptualización de la problemática de seguridad que subyace
Andrés Vargas Castillo
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Marco Jurídico en materia de seguridad en la agenda Hemisférica
El nuevo escenario internacional ha enfrentado a las naciones del mundo a reconceptualizar el término de seguridad internacional. Los enfoques hasta ahora planteados parecieran responder a intereses particulares más que a la necesidad de enfrentar las ...
Alicia Kerber Palma
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Política de seguridad democrática: avatares jurisprudenciales
La Política de Seguridad Democrática se proponía como línea de acción, retomar el control definitivo por parte del Estado de aquellas zonas que se encontraban bajo la influencia de los grupos armados ilegales.
Néstor Raúl Arturo Dorado
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