Name: Clientelistic Warfare: Paramilitaries and the State in Colombia (1982–2007) (Sociología Política Para los Desafíos del Siglo Xxi)
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Author: Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
ISBN: 9781787073654

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Clientelistic Warfare: Paramilitaries and the State in Colombia (1982–2007) (Sociología Política Para los Desafíos del Siglo Xxi)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Publisher

Peter Lang

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781787073654

Synopsis "Clientelistic Warfare: Paramilitaries and the State in Colombia (1982–2007) (Sociología Política Para los Desafíos del Siglo Xxi) "

Clientelistic Warfare analyzes the relationship between Colombian paramilitaries and the State in the period 19822007. Despite the attention that the paramilitaries demand, due to both the magnitude of their crimes and their specifi cities, understanding the nature of this interaction has proven to be complex. They were not a homogeneous, hierarchical force, but a protean network of highly localistic coalitions and units. Based on new and extensive empirical evidence, this book shows that even in diverse circumstances there was a set of basic mechanisms that established a link between the State and paramilitary factions, which marked the trajectory of the latter. These mechanisms, in turn, were permanently mediated by political institutions and the highly clientelistic Colombian polity. Therefore, without a close reading of the Colombian clientelistic politics and statehood, it is not possible to understand the interaction between the two entities.

Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

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Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín is an anthropologist with a master's and doctorate in Political Science, professor at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations of the National University of Colombia. Columnist for El Espectador. Visiting professor at the London School of Economics, Yale, and the Sorbonne, among other universities.

He has published in international journals such as Politics and Society, Social Indicators Research, Journal of Peace Research, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, among others, and has carried out comparative projects with various national and international entities. Author of ¿Lo que el viento se llevó? (2007), about the changes in the Colombian political system over the last half-century; El orangután con sacoleva (2014), about democracy and repression in Colombia between 1910 and 2010; La destrucción de una República (2017), where he explores the rise and fall of the so-called Liberal Republic, a period of Colombian political life that began in 1930, and ¿Un nuevo ciclo de la guerra en Colombia?, in which he questions the precarious implementation of the Peace Agreement with the FARC and the consequences of non-compliance with what was agreed.

The most recent essay by Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín on the relationship between agrarian inequality and the origins of the armed conflict in Colombia.

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