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Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War

Autor Annette Idler
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mar 2019
The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the proliferation of violent non-state groups-variously labeled terrorists, rebels, paramilitaries, gangs, and criminals-near borders in unstable regions especially. In Borderland Battles, Annette Idler examines the micro-dynamics among violent non-state groups and finds striking patterns: borderland spaces consistently intensify the security impacts of how these groups compete for territorial control, cooperate in illicit cross-border activities, and replace the state in exerting governance functions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with more than 600 interviews in and on the shared borderlands of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, where conflict is ripe and crime thriving, Idler reveals how dynamic interactions among violent non-state groups produce a complex security landscape with ramifications for order and governance, both locally and beyond. A deep examination of how violent non-state groups actually operate with and against one another on the ground, Borderland Battles will be essential reading for anyone involved in reducing organized crime and armed conflict-some of our era's most pressing and seemingly intractable problems.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190849146
ISBN-10: 0190849142
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 26 maps, 7 line drawings, 36 photographs
Dimensiuni: 236 x 157 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.96 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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provides an intriguing combination of political science analysis and ethnographic research, merging multisite participative observation and theoretically informed models of sociopolitical governance, and mobilizing an impressive deal of documental, archival, statistical, and oral information ... Idler's intellectual contribution is undisputable. Borderland Battles should be commended for the vast amount of material and the multidisciplinary strategies pursued in amassing a vivid image of borderland regions and, despite the label, their centrality for understanding core dynamics and developments.
Unlike much political science and mainstream media narratives that show us a Colombian state struggling to regain security and overcome criminality in its margins, Idler's book shows us how it is relationships between guerrillas, paramilitaries and criminal gangs in the "marginal" borderlands - which truly compose the core regions of an informal, transnational, non-state governance system - that is a missing key to understanding the totality of security in Colombia.
"Recent research has problematized the boundaries between conflict and post-conflict. Anette Idler's grounded and meticulous investigation of Colombia's borderlands adds to this growing research area by showing why the marginal spaces, and the margins more broadly, deserve more scrutiny." -Stathis Kalyvas, Stathis N. Kalyvas
"A decade of multi-site fieldwork in four remote and dangerous border conflict zones underlies Annette Idler's sophisticated and thought-provoking study. She decenters prevailing state-centric perspectives on Colombia's profound and still ongoing disorders, and foregrounds the almost invisible realities of these borderlands, thus providing a 'wide-angled view' of the country's many faces. Her focus on the shifting relations between locally-based 'violent non-state groups' illuminates the precarious 'shadow citizenship' operating there. Policy prescriptions will only work if based on sound understanding of these unfamiliar borderland polities."-Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University
"This represents a novel contribution to conflict studies, integrating a sophisticated understanding of borderlands with theorizing on local conflict dynamics of local conflicts and relations among violent non-state actors. Using detailed ethnographic fieldwork performed under dangerous conditions, Idler demonstrates how abstract, state-centered concepts such as sovereignty and borderlines guide the behavior of non-state actors in conflict, even in territories where the state is weak or absent." -Harold Trinkunas, Center for International Conflict and Cooperation, Stanford University
"Amidst a growing literature on organized violence and crime in Latin America, Idler's Borderland Battles stands out for its sharp focus on the fuzzy remote edges of the territorial state--the highly contested borderlands that receive too little scholarly, policy, and media attention because they are harder to access and 'see.' This is especially important in countries such as Colombia, where central state authority has long been notoriously weak. Idler shows that to fully understand Colombian security politics one must understand borderland security, where many of the key actors simultaneously compete and cooperate and nimbly crisscross and exploit borders. Through her grounded, 'bottom up' ethnographic research, Idler provides an impressively nuanced argument that 'brings borders back in' to contemporary security debates about weak and fragile states." -Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Brown University

Notă biografică

Annette Idler is the Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, and at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She holds a doctorate from the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, and an MA in International Relations from King's College London's Department of War Studies. Her research focuses on security, conflict, and transnational organized crime. Idler has published numerous scholarly articles, policy briefs, and op-eds, advised governments and international organizations, and provided frequent media commentary.