Beyond 'plata o plomo' : Drugs and State Reconfiguration in Colombia
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108810322
ISBN-13
9781108810326
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 6th, 2022
Print length
75 Pages
Weight
144 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.70 x 0.90 cms
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Drugs trade / drug traffickingOrganized crimeIrregular or guerrilla forces & warfare
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This Element explores three central elements to the interpretation of the interaction between drug trafficking and reconfiguration of the state in Colombia. This discusses the flaws of the state authority and the offensive of Marxist guerrillas since the early 80s, which shaped the oligopolies of coercion that drug traffickers later imposed.
This Element introduces the concept of oligopoly of coercion to interpretate the interaction between drug trafficking and reconfiguration of the state in Colombia. Three elements are central to this interpretation: corruption in oligopolies of coercion must be understood as a payment by drug traffickers for acting like a parallel state; the state criminalizes more drug as merchandise than drug as capital – its equivalent in money; the politics and war around drug trafficking in Colombia should be understood as the way in which peripheral societies access global markets through the ruling institutions of private armies. With these elements, the author focuses on the dynamics of the reconfiguration of the state in Colombia after the cocaine boom in the mid-70s and the evolution of the private armies in Colombia.
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