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Commercial Insurgencies in the Networked Era - The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Paperback)
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Commercial Insurgencies in the Networked Era - The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Paperback)
Series: Cass Military Studies
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This book examines the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) as a commercial insurgency through the network-complex
paradigm of insurgency. Countering traditional perspectives of the
group, it proposes new and comprehensive explanations for the
FARC's presence in Latin America. Existing narratives have
portrayed the FARC as a terrorist, narco-terrorist, or criminal
organization - a narrative popularized by the government offensive
conducted by the Colombian state during the last couple of decades.
In contrast, this book goes beyond simplistic perspectives of the
FARC and instead studies the group in relation to the
network-complex paradigm of insurgency. It explains the
organization as a 'commercial insurgency' with three dimensions -
political, criminal, and military - and understands the Colombian
insurgency not as a monolith, but as a system of individuals with
diversified interests ranging from the highly indoctrinated to the
profit-motivated. This examination allows for an analysis of some
of the insurgency's most unexplored characteristics: an interest in
urbanizing its actions and the increased 'invisibility' of
combatants, the significance of its political institutions, and the
construction of its transnational networks. The volume also
discusses the future of FARC in post-conflict Colombia, not only
within the country but as an actor in the region. This work will be
of much interest to students of insurgencies, military studies,
Latin American studies, criminology, security studies, and IR.
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