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A leading text for more than 40 Years, Latin American Politics and
Development has helped instructors and students stay abreast of
current affairs in Latin America since 1979. Chapters written by
leading authorities on each country in Latin America, something
unique in the field and praised by reviewers. In addition to
coverage of Middle, Central, and South America, includes coverage
of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti in the Caribbean.
Contextual Background: Chapters 1-7, written by the two editors,
provide an essential foundation for understanding the context of
Latin American politics and patterns of historical development. No
obvious or overbearing political bias, which is unusual in texts on
Latin American politics. The wide selection of countries included
in Parts 2 and 3 allows students to explore more countries than
typically covered. Writing throughout the book to be approachable
and perfectly appropriate for an undergraduate audience. It is not
laden with jargon, and concepts are explained well.
A leading text for more than 40 Years, Latin American Politics and
Development has helped instructors and students stay abreast of
current affairs in Latin America since 1979. Chapters written by
leading authorities on each country in Latin America, something
unique in the field and praised by reviewers. In addition to
coverage of Middle, Central, and South America, includes coverage
of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti in the Caribbean.
Contextual Background: Chapters 1-7, written by the two editors,
provide an essential foundation for understanding the context of
Latin American politics and patterns of historical development. No
obvious or overbearing political bias, which is unusual in texts on
Latin American politics. The wide selection of countries included
in Parts 2 and 3 allows students to explore more countries than
typically covered. Writing throughout the book to be approachable
and perfectly appropriate for an undergraduate audience. It is not
laden with jargon, and concepts are explained well.
This book discusses the blend of Andean and Caribbean
characteristics that define Colombia, particularly in its
geography, demography, and social structure. It introduces readers
to a complex and beautiful country that has been transformed from a
fairly successful democracy to a near-pariah.
Although Colombia is the third-largest country in Latin America, it
has been little known until recent years and does not fit many of
the patterns common to other countries in the region. Competition
between political parties, for example, has always been more
important than class conflict; there is no tradition of military
dictatorship; and corporatist structures are weak. Over the past
decade, however, Colombia has gained notoriety, principally as the
supplier of 80 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United
States. The second edition of this comprehensive country profile
begins with a discussion of the blend of Andean and Caribbean
characteristics that define Colombia, particularly in its
geography, demography, and social structure. The author then
presents a detailed political history that extends from before the
arrival of the Spanish, including a portrait of early Amerindian
populations, and continues through the turbulence of guerrilla,
drug, and paramilitary violence in the 1980s and constitutional
reforms of the 1990s. Harvey Kline argues that Colombia is now
conscientiously attempting to alter historical patterns that have
led it to play a key role in the international drug trade and to
lead the world in the rate of homicides. A chapter on the economy
offers a historical analysis of its evolution and examines economic
and trade policies of recent presidents. Finally, the author looks
at the international dimension of Colombian politics, especially
its long-standing relationship with the United States and its
increasingly important regional ties.
This succinct overview of the political factors that condition
social and economic development in Latin America is the perfect
core text in courses on politics, government, social change, and
transitions to democracy throughout Latin America and the
Caribbean.
The new edition of this title offers an overview of the political
factors that condition social and economic development in Latin
America. It is intended for use by students in courses on politics,
government, social change and transitions to democracy throughout
Latin America and the Caribbean.
Colombia is the fourth largest country in South America and one of
the continent s most populous nations. It has substantial oil
reserves and is a major producer of gold, silver, emeralds,
platinum, and coal, along with a significant number of natural
resources. Colombia has also been ravaged by a decades-long violent
conflict involving outlawed armed groups, drug cartels, and gross
violations of human rights. Recently the country has made some
progress towards improving security, and President Santos has
pledged to continue to improve security by passing laws to
strengthen the judicial system; a reform of the manner of
distributing royalties paid by mining and petroleum companies; and
a tougher law against corruption. The Historical Dictionary of
Colombia covers the history of Colombia through a chronology, an
introductory essay, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary
section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important
personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and
culture. This book is an excellent access point for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Colombia."
Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian
president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia. In Between the Sword and the Wall: The Santos
Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,
Harvey Kline, a noted expert on contemporary Colombian politics,
brings to a close his multivolume chronicle of the incessant
violence that has devastated Colombia's population, politics, and
military for decades. This, his newest work on the subject,
recounts and analyzes the negotiations between Colombian president
Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC), which ended with a peace agreement in 2016. The
FARC insurgency began in 1964, and every Colombian president after
1980 unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a peace agreement with the
group. Kline analyzes how the Santos administration was ultimately
able to negotiate peace with the FARC. The agreement failed to
receive the approval of the Colombian people in an October 2016
plebiscite, but a renegotiated version was later approved by the
congress in the same year. Afterward, more than 7,000 rebels turned
over their weapons to the UN mission in Colombia. The former
combatants were then to be judged by a special court empowered to
punish but not imprison those who had violated human rights.
Throughout the book, Kline emphasizes the dual nature of the Santos
negotiations, first with the FARC and second with the democratic
opposition to the agreement led by former president Alvaro Uribe
VElez. Kline provides readers with a well-researched analysis based
on a variety of resources, including media articles and primary
documents from the government, international organizations, and the
FARC. He also conducted extensive interviews with twenty-eight
government officials and Colombian experts from all ideological
persuasions.
Studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second
administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006–2010)
encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation’s violent
Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss offers a deeply insightful analysis
of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President
Álvaro Uribe VÉlez (2006–2010) to resolve a decades-long
Marxist insurgency in one of Latin America’s most important
nations. Continuing work from his prior books about earlier
Colombian presidents and yet written as a stand-alone study,
Colombia expert Harvey F. Kline illuminates the surprising
successes and setbacks in Uribe’s response to this existential
threat. In State Building and Conflict Resolution in
Colombia, 1986–1994, Kline documented and explained the limited
successes of Presidents Virgilio Barco and CÉsar Gaviria in
putting down the revolutionaries while also confronting challenges
from drug dealers and paramilitary groups. The following president
AndrÉs Pastrana then boldly changed course and attempted
resolution through negotiations, an effort whose failure Kline
examines in Chronicle of a Failure Foretold. In his third book,
Showing Teeth to the Dragons, Kline shows how in his first term
President Álvaro Uribe VÉlez more successfully quelled the
insurrection through a combination of negotiated demobilization of
paramilitary groups and using US backing to mount more effective
military campaigns. Kline opens Fighting Monsters in the
Abyss with a recap of Colombia’s complex political history, the
development of Marxist rebels and paramilitary groups and their
respective relationships to the narcotics trade, and the attempts
of successive Colombian presidents to resolve the crisis. Kline
next examines the ability of the Colombian government to reimpose
rule in rebel-controlled territories as well as the challenges of
administering justice. He recounts the difficulties in the
enforcement of the landmark Law of Justice and Peace as well as two
significant government scandals, that of the “false positives”
(“falsos positivos”) in which innocent civilians were killed by
the military to inflate the body counts of dead insurgents and a
second scandal related to illegal wiretapping. In tracing
Uribe’s choices, strategies, successes, and failures, Kline also
uses the example of Colombia to explore a dimension quite unique in
the literature about state building: what happens when some members
of a government resort to breaking rules or betraying their
societies’ values in well-intentioned efforts to build a stronger
state?
The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for sixty years, with
shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties.
Bursts of appalling violence are punctuated by uneasy truces,
cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism,
the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty,
and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed the
uncounted lives of peasants, conscript soldiers, and those who
simply got in the way. Kline argues that the first administration
of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez marks a decisive break in
this seemingly endless cycle. Not only were the levels of homicide
and kidnapping dramatically reduced, but the state took the
offensive against the insurgents, strengthening the armed forces
which in turn demonstrated clear support for the president's
policy. However, Kline believes that these changes, although
dramatic, are not necessarily permanent, and discusses what
challenges must be overcome for the permanent reduction of
organized violence in this war-torn nation.
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