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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Intimacies of Four Continents -- Chapter 2. Autobiography Out of Empire -- Chapter 3. A Fetishism of Colonial Commodities -- Chapter 4. The Ruses of Liberty -- Chapter 5. Freedoms Yet to Come -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index

This article introduces the Continent of International Law (COIL) research project on international agreement design. COIL stems from the conviction that the International Organization subfield's focus on the couple hundred international organizations with physical headquarters had to be broadened to include the tens of thousands extant international agreements, that is, international law. Each piece of international law can and should be studied as an institution. Together, this set of institutions, which truly is a "continent," is theoretically very interesting and empirically very diversified. COIL's basic theoretical premise is that international agreement design and comparison across agreements begins by understanding the underlying cooperation problem(s) the agreements are trying to solve. COIL identifies 12 distinct and recurrent cooperation problems, which may occur alone or in combinations. The data collection features a random sample of international agreements conditional on the issue areas of economics, environment, human rights, and security. The first large-n, systematic operationalization of the cooperation problems underlying real international agreements is highlighted, and descriptive statistics are presented -- some of which challenge conventional wisdom. For instance, enforcement problems (Prisoner's Dilemma-like situations) are important, but far from universal, with 30% of the agreements characterized by that underlying problem. The numerous and diverse COIL variables allow for a multi-dimensional operationalization of the difficult-to-measure concept of the "incomplete contract." Hypotheses from contract theory are tested, confirming the appropriateness of the new measure, the weakness of measures based on number of pages, and most significant, the rationality and efficiency of the continent of international law. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]

This article introduces the Continent of International Law (COIL) research project on international agreement design. COIL stems from the conviction that the International Organization subfield's focus on the couple hundred international organizations with physical headquarters had to be broadened to include the tens of thousands extant international agreements, that is, international law. Each piece of international law can and should be studied as an institution. Together, this set of institutions, which truly is a "continent," is theoretically very interesting and empirically very diversified. COIL's basic theoretical premise is that international agreement design and comparison across agreements begins by understanding the underlying cooperation problem(s) the agreements are trying to solve. COIL identifies 12 distinct and recurrent cooperation problems, which may occur alone or in combinations. The data collection features a random sample of international agreements conditional on the issue areas of economics, environment, human rights, and security. The first large-n, systematic operationalization of the cooperation problems underlying real international agreements is highlighted, and descriptive statistics are presented – some of which challenge conventional wisdom. For instance, enforcement problems (Prisoner's Dilemma-like situations) are important, but far from universal, with 30% of the agreements characterized by that underlying problem. The numerous and diverse COIL variables allow for a multi-dimensional operationalization of the difficult-to-measure concept of the "incomplete contract." Hypotheses from contract theory are tested, confirming the appropriateness of the new measure, the weakness of measures based on number of pages, and most significant, the rationality and efficiency of the continent of international law.

En un momento histórico como el que actualmente vivimos, en el que la democracia funge como un discurso hegemónico exigible a cualquier gobierno y sociedad, la publicación del Diccionario político y social del mundo Iberoamericano. Conceptos políticos fundamentales, 1770-1870 (de ahora en adelante Iberconceptos II) y particularmente su Tomo ii sobre "Democracia", obra como una válvula de oxígeno que nos sirve para reconstituir su carácter histórico, polisémico y aporético, el cual pareciera haber sido olvidado. Este olvido nos hace asumir que la democracia no tiene historia, que los usos que adquiere al día de hoy son resultados previsibles del devenir histórico y que los sentidos que le damos actualmente están constituidos por tensiones, experiencias y expectativas disímiles sobre las cuales seguimos construyendo nuestra propia realidad. Así, el tomo que reseño no debería ser visto solo como un análisis del pasado sino también como un mecanismo útil para recomponer nuestros debates presentes.

Even within the historiographical lacunae that exists for the years between the Independence and the Regeneration, the two decades between Bolívar's final military triumphs in Gran Colombia and the War of the Supremes are understudied. Thus, Gilberto Enrique Parada García's examination of the law and the development of the New Granada legal code during these years is a much needed study on politics and public life at the beginning of the republic. The book focuses on the history of the legal system in the early republic, specifically the juridical and historical context within which the Penal Code of 1837 was developed. The study engages with legal theory and legal studies while remaining grounded in social and political history. Parts of the study have been published as individual articles and here are placed in a broader, more informative, discussion.

Contrapoder y justicia guerrillera, fragmentación política y orden insurgente en Colombia (1952-2003) es la última de las investigaciones desarrolladas por Mario Aguilera Peña que, junto a obras como Guerrilla y población civil. Trayectoria de las FARC 1949-2013 (2014), construye un compendio de nuevos enfoques de estudio del conflicto armado colombiano, desanudando temas hasta ahora menoscabados y poco visibilizados, como son: el estudio de las mentalidades insurgentes, los órdenes jurídicos guerrilleros, la relación de la estrategia militar en la interacción de los actores armados ilegales con la población civil y las relaciones sociales, en zonas de retaguardia militar guerrillera.