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Stokes: Us Imperial Policing:
Znet Article, May, 18 2004
Doug Stokes
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What is perhaps most surprising about the abuses committed against civilians at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is the fact that they came as a surprise at all. The ‘sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses’ found by Major General...
Stokes: Murder and Politics in Colombia
Znet Article, March, 11 2004
Doug Stokes
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Review of: Steven Dudley’s Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (London: Routledge, 2004) Dudley’s book seeks to trace the ways in which Colombia’s first democratic leftist party, the...
Stokes: Imperial Pretexts
Znet Article, October, 14 2003
Doug Stokes
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This article explains how we can account for the continuity of US counter-insurgency (CI) in post-Cold War Colombia. I make three main arguments in relation to this continuity. First, I argue that the US has considerable economic interests in Sout...
Stokes: US Human Rights Monitoring in Colombia
Znet Article, August, 30 2003
Doug Stokes
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The Leahy law is intended to address the issue of US military aid to human rights abusers by refusing to supply, train or equip any military units who are shown to have committed gross violations of human rights. Since it's inception in 1997, it h...
Stokes: Counterinsurgency, coups, and coercion: History and the US Empire in Latin America
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Doug Stokes
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The conventional understanding of US Cold War policy in Latin America portrays a defensive and reactive posture on the part of the US. The 'containment doctrine' is popularly understood to have been the US's core Cold War Grand Strategy and allege...
Stokes: Worthy and Unworthy Victims in Colombia
Znet Article, March, 05 2003
Doug Stokes
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In the narratives of the worlds global media corporations familiar themes can be traced. One such theme that occurs time and again is the designation of worthy victims; poor unfortunates caught up in a spiral of violence. Invisible however are the...
Stokes: US Military Doctrine and Colombia's War of Terror
Znet Article, September, 25 2002
Doug Stokes
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Under the new presidency of Colombia's Alvaro Uribe Velez paramilitarism is once again legal. His new network of a million paid informants essentially makes overt what has long been a joint covert US-Colombian strategy of brutal counter-insurgent ...
Stokes: Perception Management and the US Terror War in Colombia
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Doug Stokes
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During the 1980s, US counter-insurgency took on a new form, and became what is today known as Low Intensity Conflict. With the Vietnam experience behind them, US military planners recognised two crucial lessons that led to this change. First, the ...
Stokes: Colombia Primer
Znet Article, April, 16 2002
Doug Stokes
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What is Plan Colombia and the Andean Regional Initiative? Colombia's 35 year old civil war has created the third largest refugee population in the world, produces over 4,000 politically motivated murders every year, and has contributed to the 1.5 ...
