Andean Regional Initiative

Author : Albert Tavidze
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andean Regional Initiative written by Albert Tavidze and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage runaway...a serial killer...an ex FBI agent Special edition of the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller

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Total Pages : 163 pages
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Download or read book Andean Regional Initiative written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
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Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book The Andean Initiative written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book A Review of the Andean Initiative written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book Andean Counterdrug Initiative written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Gentleman
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book The Regional Security Crisis in the Andes written by Judith Gentleman and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The instability, corruption, displacement of people, and violence generated by Colombia s unholy trinity of narcotics traffickers, insurgents, and paramilitaries is spilling over into virtually all of northern South America and Panama. Thus, the stability and political sovereignty of the region are being compromised. And, at the same time, progress toward achieving the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the economic integration of the Western Hemisphere by 2005 is being severely threatened. The author outlines some of the detail and implications of the regional security crisis in the Andes and makes recommendations for U.S. civil-military involvement in the hemispheric security arena. She argues for the United States to lead in the articulation of strategic objectives, while designing a defensible and feasible policy that critical elements in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and Japan can understand and support. She specifically argues for the U.S. military to build stronger and more cooperative security relationships within the circle of affected states around Colombia."--Summary.

Author : Sewall Menzel
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761810018
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Andes written by Sewall Menzel and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire in the Andes is a trenchant comparative analysis of why the U.S. drug wars in Bolivia and Peru are failing. While frequent anti-drug battles are won, a flawed policy analysis and strategy have led to strategic foreign policy defeat in the region. This book fills an important gap in our in-depth knowledge of U.S. foreign policy and its application in the drug wars of the high Andes region of South America. Written from the perspective of a former active participant in the U.S. anti-drug policy formulation and implementation efforts, the study uses an in-depth comparative approach to evaluate the effectiveness of the U.S. anti-drug foreign policy in Bolivia and Peru which currently comprise the primary focus of the Clinton Administration's counter-drug efforts to combat narcotrafficking at the source in Latin America today.

Author : Judith A. Gentleman
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ISBN 13 : 9781463528218
Total Pages : 58 pages
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Download or read book The Regional Security Crisis in the Andes written by Judith A. Gentleman and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is an invaluable contribution to the ongoing study of Plan Colombia begun in February 2001 by the U.S. Army War College and the Dante B. Fascell North South Center of the University of Miami. In her presentation, Dr. Judith A. Gentleman of the U.S. Air War College demonstrates the widening impact of the "spillover effect" into each of Colombia's neighbors and into Brazil and Panama. She then proposes sensible ideas worthy of policymakers' consideration. For some time it has been apparent that the crisis of Colombia is no longer confined to that country. In fact, under no imaginable scenario can Colombia's problems be contained within it. The activities of drug traffickers and guerrillas are on the rise in the entire region, coming from Colombia. Given such compelling evidence of spillover, why has a regional, cooperative response been so slow in taking shape? Dr. Gentleman goes right to the heart of the matter: a pattern of competing objectives and inherent tensions. To begin, Plan Colombia was seen in the region as a U.S.-inspired initiative by Colombia, about which the neighboring countries were not consulted in advance. Its objectives, while broad, were supported only in their military component (and by the United States alone). Moreover, the United States and Colombia were not really in harmony as to the true objective, which, for the United States was suppression of the drug trade; and for Colombia, pacification of the guerrilla insurgency. The Andean countries have also come around slowly and grudgingly to the concept, as the author points out, that only extensive international cooperation will work in an age of globalization. To do so, however, requires at least partial renunciation of the cherished principles of "nonintervenv tion, national self determination, and sovereignty." Meeting in Cartagena in April 2001 before the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, Andean leaders agreed on a regional counternarcotics strategy. They also called on the United States to renew the Andean Trade Preference Act and to include Venezuela in it. Such agreement is a great step forward. Much depends on the support of the United States for such a comprehensive regional approach. The Bush administration has responded positively with its new Andean Regional Initiative (ARI) of over $800 million, announced in May 2001. It will expand assistance into seven countries in the areas of alternative economic development, infrastructure development, human rights activities, and initiatives other than fighting narcotics trafficking. The new U.S. approach may well draw the promised (but not delivered) European assistance to the developmental aspects of Plan Colombia. Dr. Gentleman recommends, however, that the new U.S. regional approach avoid simply responding to "political constraints rather than strategic analysis," by which she means "the political predilections" of Colombia's neighbors. She makes the case that a better level of analysis be applied to design a "defensible and feasible" policy and that a "special envoy" be appointed for the Andean region to oversee and coordinate the program.

Author : Brian Loveman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742565890
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addicted to Failure written by Brian Loveman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For supplementary documentation and useful websites, click here. This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.S. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and the war on terror to be conflated? Why do U.S. policies—ostensibly designed to promote the rule of law, human rights, and democracy—instead contribute to widespread corruption, erosion of government authority, human rights violations, and increasing destabilization? Why have the war on drugs and the war on terror neither reduced narcotics trafficking nor increased citizen security in Latin America? Why do Latin American governments, the European Union, and U.S. policymakers often work at cross-purposes when they all claim to be committed to "democratization" and "development" in the region? Leading scholars answer these questions by detailing the nature of U.S. economic and security strategies in Latin America and the Andean region since 1990. They analyze the impacts and responses to these strategies by policymakers, political leaders, and social movements throughout the region, explaining how programs often generate or exacerbate the very problems they were intended to solve. Reviewing official policy and its defenders and critics alike, this indispensable book focuses on the reasons for the failure of U.S. policies and their disastrous significance for Latin America and the United States alike. Contributions by: Adrián Bonilla, Pilar Gaitán, Monica Herz, Kenneth Lehman, Brian Loveman, Enrique Obando, Orlando J. Pérez, Eduardo Pizarro, Philipp Schönrock-Martínez, and Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

Author : Silvana Rosenfeld
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607325969
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rituals of the Past written by Silvana Rosenfeld and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, landscape cognition, and religion in the Andes over a period of three thousand years. Contributors deal with theoretical and methodological concerns including non-human and human agency; the development and maintenance of political and religious authority, ideology, cosmologies, and social memory; and relationships with ritual action. The authors use a diverse array of archaeological, ethnographic, and linguistic data and historical documents to demonstrate the role ritual played in prehispanic, colonial, and post-colonial Andean societies throughout the regions of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. By providing a diachronic and widely regional perspective, Rituals of the Past shows how ritual is vital to understanding many aspects of the formation, reproduction, and change of past lifeways in Andean societies. Contributors: Sarah Abraham, Carlos Angiorama, Florencia Avila, Camila Capriata Estrada, David Chicoine, Daniel Contreras, Matthew Edwards, Francesca Fernandini, Matthew Helmer, Hugo Ikehara, Enrique Lopez-Hurtado, Jerry Moore, Axel Nielsen, Yoshio Onuki, John Rick, Mario Ruales, Koichiro Shibata, Hendrik Van Gijseghem, Rafael Vega-Centeno, Verity Whalen