Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Browse subjects
  3. Politics and International Relations
  4. Latin American government, politics and policy
  5. Content listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

17183 results in Latin American government, politics and policy

Page 293 of 860

  • LAS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / August 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 October 2019, pp. b1-b4
    Print publication:
    August 2019
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

  • LAS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / August 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 October 2019, pp. f1-f5
    Print publication:
    August 2019
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

  • 4 - Determinants of State Strength and Capacity

  • Edited by James Meernik, University of North Texas, Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt, University of North Texas, Mauricio Uribe-López
  • Book:
    As War Ends
    Published online:
    18 July 2019
    Print publication:
    25 July 2019, pp 91-112

  • Summary

    At the end of civil wars, sovereignty is often divided, resting both with the state and with nonstate actors. Territories and populations are carved up and the government does not enjoy the allegiance of all of its citizens. Its use of violence and repression against sectors of society strips it of its legitimacy, and subsets of the population may have little trust in the state. When, during the conflict, the state ceases to protect all of its citizens and provide them public goods, it breaks its social contract with its people and leaves a vacancy for “rebel governments” to fill.1

  • Introduction

  • Edited by James Meernik, University of North Texas, Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt, University of North Texas, Mauricio Uribe-López
  • Book:
    As War Ends
    Published online:
    18 July 2019
    Print publication:
    25 July 2019, pp 1-21

  • Summary

    The Colombian government recently concluded a decades-long civil war by signing a peace agreement with the largest of its opposing guerrilla armies: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC). It has also been involved in negotiations with the other major rebel group, Ejército Nacional de Liberación (National Liberation Army, or ELN). Both groups have been fighting the Colombian government since the early 1960s. Divisions in Colombian society over how to end the war with the FARC that bedeviled the protracted peace negotiations in Havana, Cuba, and led to the Colombian people’s initial rejection of the peace agreement are enduring challenges to a sustainable peace. These divisions are likely to reappear as the rebels demobilize, surrender their role in narcotics trafficking, and re-enter Colombian society and politics.

  • 3 - Land, Violence, and the Colombian Peace Process

  • Edited by James Meernik, University of North Texas, Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt, University of North Texas, Mauricio Uribe-López
  • Book:
    As War Ends
    Published online:
    18 July 2019
    Print publication:
    25 July 2019, pp 68-90

  • Summary

    On August 24, 2016, the Colombian government of President Juan Manuel Santos and leaders of the FARC rebel movement (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) signed a peace agreement designed to bring to an end the FARC insurgency that had lasted since 1964. One provision of the agreement was that it would be put to a vote in a plebiscite for Colombian citizens to ratify or reject. On October 2, 2016, the plebiscite was held and, surprisingly, 50.2 percent of voters rejected the agreement. Shortly thereafter, the Colombian government and FARC negotiated and signed a revised agreement and sent it directly to the Colombian legislature for ratification, bypassing a second referendum. Both houses of the Congress ratified the agreement, marking a formal end to the war between FARC and the government of Colombia.

Page 293 of 860