Global Capitalism Democracy and Civil Military Relations in Colombia 1st Edition by William Aviles ISBN 079146699X 978-0791466995

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ISBN 10: 079146699X 

ISBN 13: 978-0791466995

Author: William Aviles

Explores the connections between globalization and democratization in Colombia.

Through the lens of global capitalism theory, William Avilés examines democratization and civil-military relations in Colombia to explain how social and international forces led to the ostensibly contradictory outcome of democratic and economic reform coinciding with political repression. Focusing on the administrations in power from 1990 to the present, Avilés argues that the reduction in the institutional powers of the military within the state reflected changes in the structure of the global economy, the emergence of globalizing technocrats and politicians, and shifts in U.S. foreign policy strategies toward “democracy promotion.” These same factors explain Colombia’s establishment of a low-intensity democracy-a structure of elite rule in which the strategies of coercion (state and para-state repression) and consensus (competitive elections, civilian control over the military) maintain control and legitimacy. In the age of capitalist globalization, a low-intensity democracy is most concomitant with neoliberalism, establishing the political and economic environment most suitable to the investments of transnational corporations.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Globalization, state theory and civil-military relations
Chapter 2 Counterinsurgency, civil-military relations, and low-intensity democracy: a historical context
Chapter 3 Civil-military relations and the reform of low-intensity democracy
Chapter 4 The preservation of civilian authority in the Samper administration
Chapter 5 Military impunity and symbolic reform
Chapter 6 Parastate repression and civilian tolerance
Chapter 7 The continuation of low-intensity democracy: the Pastrana and Uribe administrations

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