Una guerra irregular entre dos ideologías

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

Se destaca el marco en el que se deben suscribir los tratados de comercio internacionales, por lo que en primera instancia se hace referencia a los principios y generalidades del ALCA y el TLC, pasando a estudiar los elementos jurídicos, y económicos relevantes en la negociación, y tercero se descubren los enclaves del interés extranjero. El estudio se contextualiza con datos relevantes tomados en el lapso entre 1990 y 2002.

CONTENIDO: El autor y su obra - Variaciones en torno al libro de Robert Louis Gilmore - El génesis del federalismo - La victoria del centralismo - Las dificultades de la postguerra - El recurso que falló - El estado de la Nueva Granada - "Doce largos años"--Ideología de la república democrática - La república democrática en acción - Fragmentación de las provincias y descentralización de la autoridad - La constitución de 1853.

"Concise and informative account of Colombian-Venezuelan border dispute. Written by Colombia's former minister of public works and transportation, describes evolution of Gulf of Venezuela boundary issue from independence through 1994. Relatively objective examination includes historical background, negotiations, agreements, and military incidents, the latter well illustrated with detailed maps. Rejects chauvinistic positions and concludes that remaining delimitation problems could be resolved peacefully in the context of a binational integration process"--Handbook of Latin American Studies,...