The drug war in Latin America: hegemony and global capitalism
In: Routledge studies in US foreign policy
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In: Routledge studies in US foreign policy
In: Routledge studies in US foreign policy
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The Andean region has been, and continues to be, at the center of a struggle over embracing economic globalization and market democracies or eschewing such models for various nationalist/socialist strategies of development and politics. The regions militaries have not been outside of this struggle, with factions in Venezuela or Ecuador working to frustrate the establishment and/or maintenance of neoliberal regimes, while militaries in Colombia, Peru, and to an extent in Bolivia, playing crucial roles in weakening or eliminating substantive challenges to capitalist globalization. William Aviles explores this variation in military power, identifying how neoliberal economic and political elites and international actors such as the United States have sought to marginalize "radical populists" while seeking the subordination of militaries to the decision-making of neoliberal elites within Andean states
In: SUNY Series in Global Politics
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In: Third world quarterly, Band 40, Heft 9, S. 1750-1766
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 5-10
ISSN: 0094-582X
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 5-9
ISSN: 1552-678X
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 140-146
ISSN: 1552-678X
In: Third world quarterly, Band 30, Heft 8, S. 1549-1564
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Latin American politics and society, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 57-85
ISSN: 1531-426X
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In: Third world quarterly, Band 30, Heft 8, S. 1549-1564
ISSN: 0143-6597
World Affairs Online
In: Latin American politics and society, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 57-85
ISSN: 1548-2456
AbstractColombia and Peru made significant progress in reducing the institutional prerogatives of their respective militaries in the 1990s and 2000s while reforming their economies in a neoliberal direction. They accomplished this despite internal armed threats to state authority and stability. The end of the Cold War, U.S. promotion of "market democracies," and the international centrality of free markets and formal democratic governance coincided with the rise to power in Peru and Colombia of "neoliberal policy coalitions." The internal insurgency mitigated the emergence of antiglobalization or antidemocratic reform factions in the military and civil society. The armed forces unified behind their counterinsurgency mission, and opposition in civil society was weakened, creating greater space for neoliberal elites to reform their economies and reduce military prerogatives.
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 35, Heft 6, S. 186-188
ISSN: 1552-678X
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 27, Heft 3, S. 410-429
ISSN: 1470-9856
In July 2000, US President, Bill Clinton, signed into law the aid package popularly known as 'Plan Colombia'. Foreign policy analysts examining the 'US drug war' have generally focused upon the perceived national security interests of the US state and/or the intermestic nature of domestic politics, or the economic interests of an imperial US state in explaining US drug policy. I posit that the development, initiation and implementation of Plan Colombia cannot solely be understood through these various nation‐state paradigms, as this process was aided by, and facilitated through, an incipient transnational state. The emergence and consolidation into power of a neoliberal state within Colombia, the role of transnational lobbying by US and Colombian policy‐makers, as well as the influence of transnational corporations all played instrumental roles in the initiation, development and implementation of Plan Colombia.