This is the fifth article of the series Blood for oil? Global capital, counter-insurgency and the dual logic of American energy security.…
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[This is the third article of the series Blood for oil? Global capital, counter-insurgency and the dual logic of American energy security.]…
[This is the second article of the series Blood for oil? Global capital, counter-insurgency and the dual logic of American energy security.]…
This series of five articles is an attempt to theorise the role that oil has played in US intervention in the global…
What is perhaps most surprising about the abuses committed against civilians at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is the fact that they…
Review of: Steven DudleyĆ¢€ā¢s Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (London: Routledge, 2004) DudleyĆ¢€ā¢s book seeks to trace…
This article explains how we can account for the continuity of US counter-insurgency (CI) in post-Cold War Colombia. I make three main…
The Leahy law is intended to address the issue of US military aid to human rights abusers by refusing to supply, train…
The conventional understanding of US Cold War policy in Latin America portrays a defensive and reactive posture on the part of the…
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