Borderland Battles

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

AvAnnette Idler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-28
Mått:236 x 157 x 35 mm
Vikt:958 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Academic
Antal sidor:496
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190849146

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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.

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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.

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List of Tables, Figures, and MapsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsPrologue: Witnessing Insecurity from the MarginsBorderland Maps1. Borderlands: Security through a Magnifying Glass2. Non-State Order and Security3. Borderlands Lens4. Violence and Survival5. Crime and Uncertainty6. Governance and Consent7. The Border Effect8 Global Borderlands: Security through a KaleidoscopeEpilogue: Experiencing Insecurity in the MarginsAppendix A: Further Methological NotesAppendix B: Violent Non-state Group Interactions across the BorderlandsAppendix C: Borderland Fieldwork ItinerariesNotesBibliographyIndex