This paper investigates the causal impact of non-state armed groups on local institutions during the armed conflict in Colombia, and tests competing theoretical mechanisms that may shape such effect. Our identification ...

The Venezuelan government has subjected the Venezuelan society to constant militarization, especially through the creation of armed civilian groups, such as the militias. At the same time, it has promoted the formalization ...

Organized armed groups actions in Latin America are not limited to committing transnational crimes, but, with some degree of acceptance, this groups tend to the imposition of a type of coercive community justice within ...

This chapter aims to contribute to the study of social protests around the world and particularly in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on an Argentinean case. Throughout these years, Argentina like ...

Desde 1945, la mayoría de los conflictos armados tuvieron lugar entre Estados y rebeldes o entre grupos armados no estatales al interior de Estados frágiles o fallidos. En la actualidad, los dramas en Irak, Siria y en ...