Mares de Colombia

"Excellent study by a team of Colombian social scientists of the recent evolution of Colombian-Venezuelan relations and their process of integration. Analyzes Colombian and Venezuelan roles in the other country's foreign policy, evolution of bilateral relations (1989-92), commercial relations, and negotiations and agreements on border, commercial, transportation, energy, environmental, and other issues. Concludes that integration process has lost momentum and recommends the reduction of the number and complexity of issues under discussion, while focusing attention on implementation of...

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Six essays analyze Colombia/US relations in post-Cold War period and challenges facing Colombia as US seeks to impose an ill-conceived anti-narcotics policy. Discusses policy options (including drug legalization), alternatives to extradition, and US certification requirements"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Esta investigacion esta orientada al estudio del modelo de desarrollo neoliberal, su ejecucion en America Latina y en Colombia, donde fue impuesto desde la decada de los ochenta, su relacion con la reforma constitucional de 1991, sobre la hipotesis que la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente y la Constitucion Politica resultante de este proceso, fueron utilizadas para elevar a canon institucional, social, economica y politica que afrontaba nuestro pais como se hizo aparecer. Igualmente se orienta a determinar las implicaciones del modelo neoliberal en la economia colombiana y particularmente...