Complejidad y conflicto armado

"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,...

Esta investigación se enfoca particularmente en la participación de mujeres inmigrantes colombianas y resalta su agencia en sus opciones laborales y migratorias. Por otra parte analiza el trabajo sexual como una actividad económica. El libro intenta revelar las mediaciones que el mercado sexual presenta y que dan especificidad y peculiaridad al trabajo sexual.

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

Los tres articulos reunidos en este libro pretenden aportar elementos al debate sobre el lugar del trabajo psicosocial en el contexto colombiano y sobre los dilemas eticos y politicos que el mismo plantea a quienes lo financian, lo promueven y lo realizan.