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1 online resource |
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Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics |
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Routledge studies in global and transnational politics.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Geopolitics, transnational networks, and the UP genocide; Outline; Methods; Notes; 1. Con-textualising genocide: Geopolitics, transnational networks and affective dispositions; Deconstructing the genocide script; Genocidal geopolitical conjunctures; The political economy of affective dispositions; Con-textualisation; A glance into the political economy of affective dispositions: con-textualising the UP genocide; Conclusion; Notes |
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2. The Unión Patriótica: Civilian social networks and the social construction of genocide-victimsIdentity-narratives and the UP civilian social network; The birth of the UP (1984-7); The UP as the offspring of the peace process (1987-9); The UP revolt against the PC (1989-90); In re-search of a self (1990-1); From the Communist Party's dominance to the shadow UP National Board (1992-2002); Conclusion; Notes; 3. The perpetrator bloc in Colombia: A critical mapping of genocidists; The context-affect nexus and the crystallisation of perpetrator blocs |
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The armed forces' targeting of communists (1980-7)Paramilitarisation overtakes militarisation (1987-9); The turmoil years within the perpetrator bloc (1989-91); The reconstitution of paramilitary groups: toward a more hierarchical perpetrator bloc (1992-7); The rise and fall of a narcoparamilitary-led perpetrator bloc (1997-2006); Conclusion; Notes; 4. Transnational military networks and the participation of Colombian security forces in the perpetrator bloc; The making of an anticommunist military mindset (1950-70) |
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The National Security Doctrine: Southern Cone dictatorships and Colombia in the 1970sLow-intensity warfare: a post-Vietnam counter-insurgency in the making; Importing Salvadorian counter-insurgency warfare into 1980s Colombia; The School of the Americas: the exchange and production of scripts amongst hemispheric security forces (1980-2000); Narcoguerrillas and narcoterrorism: scripting existential threats to Colombia's survival (1984-2010); Conclusion; Notes; 5. The hyperreal writing of Colombia: Con-textualising the UP genocide in US foreign policy space |
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From Carter to Reagan: US neoconservatism and the consolidation of the National Security Doctrine in ColombiaThe Reagan doctrine and the Colombian dilemma: 'peace is war'; Bush's new world order: the hyperreal writing of the Colombian drug cartels; Clinton's multilateralism, Bush's war on terror and the neglect of the UP genocide; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Drug traffickers, paramilitaries and transnational companies: Mapping il(legal) material/discursive flows in the unfolding of the UP genocide; The rise of drug-trafficking organisations (1976-84) |
| Summary |
This volume seeks to uncover and discuss the links between genocide, geopolitics and transnational networks. By studying the destruction of the Union Patrotica (UP) in Colombia - a process usually regarded as one of the extreme by-products of the Colombian armed conflict- through the lens of genocide studies, Gomez-Suarez challenges mainstream international relations, genocide and Colombian armed conflict studies. Moving beyond the analysis of the Colombian case, the book offers a broader interdisciplinary theoretical framework that also attends to transnational relations of perpetrators and r |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Unión Patriótica (Colombia)
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Unión Patriótica (Colombia) |
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Political parties -- Colombia
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Colombia
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Genocide -- Colombia
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State-sponsored terrorism -- Colombia
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Genocide
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Political parties
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State-sponsored terrorism
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
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Colombia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317656059 |
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9781317656050 |
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