Defense, Violence, and (In)security

Andres Macias, Universidad Externado de Colombia

A new regional Sparta? Chilean Armed Forces modernization 1995-2010 - Miguel M Navarro

Checking Military Autonomy: International Forces and Militarized Law Enforcement in Mexico and Colombia - Jacob Dizard, University of Texas at Austin

Uneasy Partners Against Crime: The Ambivalent Relationship between the Police and the Private Security Industry in Mexico - Logan Puck, University of California at Santa Cruz

Private Security Companies in Latina America: a comparative study between Colombia and Mexico - Andrea Carolina Pernett Gonzalez

Justifying the use of violence committed by the police and Mapuche people in Chile - Monica M Gerber, Universidad Diego Portales; Jonathan Jackson, London School of Economics