Bloque Calima de las AUC

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.

Este trabajo pretende demostrar el valor (y la necesidad) de los análisis complejos para la interpretación y la representación de las confrontaciones armadas. Escogiendo una aproximación meramente académica intentará poner en común modelos formales de comportamiento de actores armados; esto, con el fin de dar a conocer el valor de la representación en la aproximación a las situaciones altamente complejas y volátiles como los conflictos armados. Por lo mismo, este trabajo no constituye un intento de predicción de acontecimientos sino, meramente, un ejercicio de utilización de una...

"Interesting collection of essays on the national security challenges faced by Colombia and Latin America in the 1990s. The authors agree given the conditions created by the end of the Cold War - the rise of globalization and interdependence and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America - the old notions of national security focused on anticommunism, US leadership, the central role of the military and the regional hypotheses of conflict should be replaced by a new doctrine aimed at strengthening democracy, promoting South American cooperation, restructuring military-civilian relations,...

"The Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular, a well-known Colombian research center, coordinated analysis for this work as part of a multi-cultural project organized by the Asociación Peruana de Estudios y Investigaciones para la Paz. Investigates the culture of violence including its impact on daily life, the media, and the economy, as well as its relationship with narcotics and organized crime. Contributors are well-established scholars"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.