Estabilidad y gradualismo

"Interesting collection of essays on the national security challenges faced by Colombia and Latin America in the 1990s. The authors agree given the conditions created by the end of the Cold War - the rise of globalization and interdependence and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America - the old notions of national security focused on anticommunism, US leadership, the central role of the military and the regional hypotheses of conflict should be replaced by a new doctrine aimed at strengthening democracy, promoting South American cooperation, restructuring military-civilian relations,...

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.

Decisions of the Colombian Supreme Court and Senate on the constitutionality of state laws and constitutions.

"La historia que aquí se cuenta ha sido contada como historia política, económica, social y cultural. Pero debe ser contada también como historia ambiental, es decir, las formas como vivimos, imaginamos y co-producimos la red de la vida que nos sostiene y alienta, la materia vibrante que nos rodea y acompaña. Se trata además de los cambios territoriales que se desplegaron sobre el paisaje de una improbable Colombia, a punta de conflictos, que no pueden ser vistos sólo como entre grupos sociales, sino disputas inmersas en la simbiosis de naturaleza y sociedad."--Page 4 of cover.