Systems of Violence (2nd ed.)

Expanded new edition of an important study of the protracted violence in Colombia. This book examines the political, economic, and military factors that have contributed to thirty-seven years of protracted violent conflict in Colombia. Using four years of field research, and more than two hundred interviews, Nazih Richani examines Colombia's "war system"-the systemic interlacing relationship among actors in conflict, their respective political economy, and also the overall political economy of t