Movimientos sociales, estado y democracia en Colombia

"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,...

Illustrated and annotated guide of the public sculptures and monuments located in 3 sectors of the city of Bogotá: Downtown (61); North (19); West (22). This is the first volume of an editorial project that will document the 500 works of public art patrimony that are part of the urban history of the capital city. The guide includes biographical notes of each featured artist, historic photographs on each sector and referential maps. Includes public art by noted 19th and 20th century artists and sculptors like Pietro Tenerani, Edgar Negret, Jim Amaral, Fernando Botero, Alejandro Otero,...

Concepto fundamentales de teoría política - Los mitos políticos de nuestro tiempo - Los mitos de la cultura política colombiana - Las relaciones de poder en Colombia - El limbo político de la estructura asociativa en Colombia - El populismo colombiano y sus mitos - El bipartidismo en la coyuntura política de 1982 - El nuevo régimen : suprapartidismo, reformismo y populismo - La apertura multipartidista en Colombia.

"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...