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Homicidal Ecologies
Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America
Langbeschreibung
Latin America has among the world's highest homicide rates. The author analyzes the illicit organizations, complicit and weak states, and territorial competition that generate today's violent homicidal ecologies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Introduction: 1. Violence in third wave democracies; 2. Engaging the theoretical debate and alternative arguments; Part II. The Argument about Homicidal Ecologies: 3. Illicit economies and territorial enclaves: the transnational context and domestic footprint; 4. State capacity and organizational competition: strategic calculations about territory and violence; Part III. Divergent Trajectories in Central America: Three Post-Civil War Cases: 5. High violence in post-Civil-War Guatemala; 6. High violence in post-Civil War El Salvador; 7. Circumscribing violence in post-Civil War Nicaragua; Part IV. Looking Backwards and Forwards: 8. Concluding with states.
Deborah J. Yashar is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, New Jersey; lead Editor of World Politics; co-chair of SSRC's Anxieties of Democracy project; an editor of the Cambridge Contentious Politics Series; and former President of the Politics and History section of American Political Science Association (APSA). She is the author of Demanding Democracy (1997), Contesting Citizenship in Latin America (Cambridge, 2005), among other publications; and is co-editor of three other books, including States in the Developing World with Miguel Centeno and Atul Kohli (Cambridge, 2016) and Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World with Nancy Bermeo (2017). She is the recipient of Fulbright, USIP, and other awards.
ISBN-13:
9781316629659
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.12.2018
Seiten:
438
Autor:
Deborah J Yashar
Gewicht:
590 g
Format:
226x152x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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