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Showing Teeth to the Dragons
Harvey F. Kline
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Description for Showing Teeth to the Dragons
Paperback. The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for sixty years, with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties. The author argues that the first administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez marks a decisive break in this seemingly endless cycle. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL4; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for sixty years, with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties. Bursts of appalling violence are punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed the uncounted lives of peasants, conscript soldiers, and those who simply got in the way. Kline argues that the first administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez marks a decisive break in this seemingly endless cycle. Not only were the levels of ... Read more
The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for sixty years, with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties. Bursts of appalling violence are punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed the uncounted lives of peasants, conscript soldiers, and those who simply got in the way. Kline argues that the first administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez marks a decisive break in this seemingly endless cycle. Not only were the levels of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817355593
SKU
V9780817355593
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About Harvey F. Kline
Harvey F. Kline is a professor in the Department of Political Science at The University of Alabama. He is the author of Chronicle of a Failure Foretold: The Peace Process of Colombian President Andres Pastrana and State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986-1994, which was awarded a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.
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