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Drugs and State Reconfiguration in Colombia

Gustavo Duncan (Universidad EAFIT, Colombia)

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Cambridge University Press
06 October 2022

Drugs trade & trafficking; Organised crime; Irregular or guerrilla forces & warfare

Series: Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America

This Element introduces the concept of oligopoly of coercion to interpretate the interaction between drug trafficking and reconfiguration of the state in Colombia. Three elements are central to this interpretation: corruption in oligopolies of coercion must be understood as a payment by drug traffickers for acting like a parallel state; the state criminalizes more drug as merchandise than drug as capital – its equivalent in money; the politics and war around drug trafficking in Colombia should be understood as the way in which peripheral societies access global markets through the ruling institutions of private armies. With these elements, the author focuses on the dynamics of the reconfiguration of the state in Colombia after the cocaine boom in the mid-70s and the evolution of the private armies in Colombia.

By: Gustavo Duncan (Universidad EAFIT Colombia)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 150g
ISBN: 9781108810326
ISBN 10: 1108810322
Series: Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 06 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. An Interpretation of Drug Trafficking and the Reconfiguration of the State: The Business of Power Production; 2. Merchandise, Capital, and the Geography of the State; 3. The Interpretation; 4. The Dynamics of State Reconfiguration in Colombia: A State Driven by War to Meet Its Obligations; 5. Conclusions.