TY - BOOK ID - 78145925 TI - Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America AU - Koonings, Kees. AU - Kruijt, Dirk. PY - 2004 SN - 1848136153 128125908X 9786611259082 1848131208 9781848131200 9781281259080 1842774441 184277445X 9781842774441 9781842774458 PB - London ; New York : Zed Books, DB - UniCat KW - Violence KW - Political violence KW - Political stability KW - Failed states KW - State failure KW - Political science KW - Destabilization (Political science) KW - Political instability KW - Stability, Political KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Legitimacy of governments KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - 841.1 Democratisering KW - 841.2 Zwakke staten KW - 844 Sociale structuur KW - 855.2 Private actoren KW - 882.2 Zuid-Amerika KW - 882.4 Noord-Amerika KW - Violence politique KW - StabiliteĢ politique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78145925 AB - This volume explores recent evidence of how partial state failure in Latin America interacts with new forms of organized violence, undermining the democratic consolidations of the past two decades. This 'new violence' stems from a variety of social actors: drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gangs, the socalled actores armadas, and include state-related actors like the police, military intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces. The results include both 'governance voids' - domains where the legitimate state is effectively absent - and the erosion of the capacity and willingness of stat ER -