The Colombian counterinsurgency campaign against FARC, during the years 2003–2012, was successful in significantly reducing the insurgency to its weakest condition in history. The strategy was a result of the transformation ...

This article proposes to qualify the dominant perspective regarding the National Security Doctrine (NDS) in Guatemala, according to which the Army appears as a mere recipient of ideas from the US. It assumes that the ...

The concept of commercial insurgency describes organisations permeated by criminal interests, especially when they participate in the production and trade of specific commodities. This article introduces a framework of ...

We develop a model where some politicians have an edge in undertaking a task and this gives them electoral advantage, creating an incentive to underperform in the task. We test the empirical implications in the context of ...

This article surveys the period that covers the second half of the 1990’s, when “paramilitary groups” became visible in Cundinamarca and Bogotá, and the first half of the present decade, when a number of these structures ...

Im Mai 1964 erstürmte die kolumbianische Armee im Rahmen des sogenannten Plan LASO (Latin American Security Operation) die von Kommunisten gegründete Agrarkolonie Marquetalia im Süden Kolumbiens. Die sich über mehrere ...

Anti-insurgent militias and states attempt to erode insurgent groups’ capacities and co-opt insurgent fighters by promising and providing benefits. They do so to create a perception that the insurgency is unraveling and ...