Research Catalog

Title

Fighting monsters in the abyss : the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006-2010 / Harvey F. Kline.

Author

Kline, Harvey F.

Publication

• Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Description

xiv, 252 pages : map; 24 cm

Summary

"Fighting Monsters in the Abyss 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"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Uribe Vélez, Álvaro, 1952-
• Human rights > Colombia > History > 21st century
• Political violence > Colombia > History > 21st century
• Justice, Administration of > Colombia > History > 21st century
• Colombia > Politics and government > 1974-

Note

• "Fourth in the series ... on the attempts of Colombian presidents to end the endemic violence in their country. State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986-1994 covered the presidencies of Virgilio Barco and Cesar Gaviria; Chronicle of a Failure Foretold : The Peace Process of Colombian President Andres Pastrana dealt with the Andres Pastrana government; [and] the third was Showing Teeth to the Dragons : State-Building by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, 2002-2006"--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.

Contents

I. Historical background to the Colombian state in 2006 -- The concepts of the state and state building -- State building in Colombia before 1998 -- The immediate context : the Andres Pastrana presidency and Alvaro Uribe's first term -- II. The legitimate monopoly of force challenge -- Violence and human rights during the second Uribe term -- Failure with guerilla groups during the second Uribe term -- III. The justice challenge -- The conflicts of president Uribe with the judicial branch -- Enforcement of the law of justice and peace -- Unsolved problems after the paramilitary demobilization : parapolitica and new emerging bands -- IV. Into the abyss? -- The difficulties coming from allowing the ends to justify the means -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 15-199

ISBN

• 9780817318802
• 0817318801
• 9780817388843 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015016665

OCLC

923254785

Author

Kline, Harvey F., author.

Title

Fighting monsters in the abyss : the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006-2010 / Harvey F. Kline.

Publisher

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-199