Systems of Violence, Second Edition: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia

Contents

vii List of Illustrations ix Prologue xi Notes to the Second Edition xvii Acknowledgments xxi 1 The Contours and the Theory 1 2 Institutional Failure: Genesis of the War System 11 3 The Military and the Comfortable Impasse 35 4 Guerillas and the Impasse 57 5 Paramilitaries, Organized Crime, and the Dynamics of War 89 6 The Dominant Classes and the Prospects of Peace 129 7 Colombia’s Civil War in Comparative Perspective 153 8 Third Parties, War Systems’ Inertia, and Conflict Termination: The Doomed Peace Process in Colombia, 1998–2002 167 9 The War System: From Comfortable Impasse 191 to Unstable Equilibrium, 2000–2012 10 Bastard Rentier Capitalism: The Political Economy 223 of Organized Crime in Colombia Sicarios and Caudillos 11 Colombia’s War System in Comparative Perspective 233 Appendix: Selection of the Interview Population 249 Addendum 251 Notes 253 Bibliography 317 Index 337 SUNY series in Global Politics, List of Titles 000 Contents ...