Fighting monsters in the abyss : the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006-2010 /

Fighting Monsters in the Abyss studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006-2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation's violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kline, Harvey F. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Colombia > Politics and government > 1974- Uribe Vélez, Álvaro, > 1952- Human rights > Colombia > History > 21st century. Political violence > Colombia > History > 21st century. Justice, Administration of > Colombia > History > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

I. Historical background to the Colombian state in 2006
The concepts of the state and state building
State building in Colombia before 1998
The immediate context : the Andres Pastrana presidency and Alvaro Uribe's first term
II. The legitimate monopoly of force challenge
Violence and human rights during the second Uribe term
Failure with guerilla groups during the second Uribe term
III. The justice challenge
The conflicts of president Uribe with the judicial branch
Enforcement of the law of justice and peace
Unsolved problems after the paramilitary demobilization : parapolitica and new emerging bands
IV. Into the abyss?
The difficulties coming from allowing the ends to justify the means
Conclusion
Epilogue.