{"product_id":"fighting-monsters-in-the-abyss-the-second-administration-of-colombian-president-alvaro-uribe-velez-2006-2010-paperback-softback-9780817360795","title":"Fighting Monsters in the Abyss; The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006-2010 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817360795","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFighting Monsters in the Abyss\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006-2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarvey F. Kline (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817360795\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 July 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages, 1 map - 10 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFighting Monsters in the Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Latin American politics. Kline’s research is impressive. Building on his august wealth of knowledge of Colombia, this study offers new data and insights.\"—Cynthia McClintock, author of \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador’s FMLN and Peru’s Shining Path \u003c\/i\u003eand coauthor of\u003ci\u003e The United States and Peru: Cooperation—At a Cost\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eÁlvaro Uribe’s second term was a time of notable improvements in security. It was also a time of mounting scandals that shook Colombia's institutions, and of paralyzing discord between the executive and judicial branches. Understanding this period is essential to understanding the hopeful yet deeply polarized political moment Colombia is experiencing today.\u003ci\u003e Fighting Monsters in the Abyss \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the complexity of the 2006 to 2010 period in a way that Álvaro Uribe's many detractors and hero-worshippers rarely do. Harvey Kline’s painstaking research allows him to arrive at honest, balanced conclusions, which make this an important book.”—Adam Isacson, author of \u003ci\u003eJust the Facts: A Civilian’s Guide to US Defense and Security Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eStudies 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFighting Monsters in the Abyss \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a deeply insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe VÉlez (2006–2010) to resolve a decades-long Marxist insurgency in one of Latin America’s most important nations. Continuing work from his prior books about earlier Colombian presidents and yet written as a stand-alone study, Colombia expert Harvey F. Kline illuminates the surprising successes and setbacks in Uribe’s response to this existential threat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eState Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986–1994\u003c\/i\u003e, Kline documented and explained the limited successes of Presidents Virgilio Barco and CÉsar Gaviria in putting down the revolutionaries while also confronting challenges from drug dealers and paramilitary groups. The following president AndrÉs Pastrana then boldly changed course and attempted resolution through negotiations, an effort whose failure Kline examines in \u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Failure Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e. In his third book, \u003ci\u003eShowing Teeth to the Dragons\u003c\/i\u003e, Kline shows how in his first term President Álvaro Uribe VÉlez more successfully quelled the insurrection through a combination of negotiated demobilization of paramilitary groups and using US backing to mount more effective military campaigns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kline opens \u003ci\u003eFighting Monsters in the Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e with a recap of Colombia’s complex political history, the development of Marxist rebels and paramilitary groups and their respective relationships to the narcotics trade, and the attempts of successive Colombian presidents to resolve the crisis. Kline next examines the ability of the Colombian government to reimpose rule in rebel-controlled territories as well as the challenges of administering justice. He recounts the difficulties in the enforcement of the landmark Law of Justice and Peace as well as two significant government scandals, that of the “false positives” (“falsos positivos”) in which innocent civilians were killed by the military to inflate the body counts of dead insurgents and a second scandal related to illegal wiretapping.\u003cbr\u003e In tracing Uribe’s choices, strategies, successes, and failures, Kline also uses the example of Colombia to explore a dimension quite unique in the literature about state building: what happens when some members of a government resort to breaking rules or betraying their societies’ values in well-intentioned efforts to build a stronger state?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574420467992,"sku":"9780817360795","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fighting-monsters-in-the-abyss-the-second-administration-of-colombian-president-alvaro-uribe-velez-2006-2010-paperback-softback-9780817360795","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}