Colombia: compromise or containment? National state transformation and the formulation of nationhood

Daniel Hawkins. [Autor]
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ISSN: 1863-0928
Universität Kassel
Alemania - Kassel
2008

This working paper will focus on Colombia, analysing the reconfigurations of the national state as expressed most particularly through the emergence of the Uribe Government in 2002 and the way this administration illustrates both a continuation of a process of structural change within the Colombian state as well as the embodiment of key political, ideological and institutional divergencies. Specifically, the paper will examine the principle projects associated with this regime and the multifarious ties they have to, in general, neoliberalism, and in particular, US policies.