Dear colleagues,
I have recently published a monograph that may be of interest to those
studying marginalized communities, violence/conflict/organized crime,
borderlands/borders, and Latin America:
*Idler, Annette (2019). Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and
Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War (Oxford University Press New
York).*
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/borderland-battles-9780190849153?lang=en&cc=us
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*About the book:*
The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the
proliferation of violent non-state groups-variously labeled terrorists,
rebels, paramilitaries, gangs, and criminals near borders in unstable
regions especially. In Borderland Battles, Annette Idler examines the
micro-dynamics among violent non-state groups and finds striking patterns:
borderland spaces consistently intensify the security impacts of how these
groups compete for territorial control, cooperate in illicit cross-border
activities, and replace the state in exerting governance functions. Drawing
on extensive fieldwork with more than 600 interviews in and on the shared
borderlands of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, where conflict is ripe and
crime thriving, Idler reveals how dynamic interactions among violent
non-state groups produce a complex security landscape with ramifications
for order and governance, both locally and beyond. A deep examination of
how violent non-state groups actually operate with and against one another
on the ground, Borderland Battles will be essential reading for anyone
involved in reducing organized crime and armed conflict-some of our era’s
most pressing and seemingly intractable problems.
Best wishes,
Annette Idler
Dr Annette Idler
Director of Studies, Changing Character of War Centre
Senior Research Fellow, Pembroke College and Department of Politics and
International Relations, University of Oxford
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk <http://www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/>; www.annetteidler.com
<http://www.annetteidler.com/>
www.conflictplatform.ox.ac.uk; conpeace.ccw.ox.ac.uk
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