Post-conflict Colombia and the Global Circulation of Military Expertise

Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
	1.1 Analytical Tools and Plan of the Book
	References
Part I The Colombian “Success Story” (or, What Is Allowed to Have Happened)
2 The Problem as a Condition for Success: The Construction of Colombia as a “Problematic Country”
	2.1 The Problematization of Violence in Colombia
	2.2 Fighting a Distant War: The U.S. And the Externalization of the “Drug Problem”
	2.3 Conclusion
	References
3 The Success and Its Monsters: Disputing the Metrics, Dodging Criticism
	3.1 Measuring Success: Assessing Colombia’s Counternarcotic Performance
	3.2 The Silencing That Makes the Success Audible
	3.3 Conclusion
	References
Part II The Transnational Making of the Military Professional in Latin America
4 “Technical, not Political”: The Military Professional as the Citizen-Soldier
	4.1 Organizing Violence: The Regulative Ideal of Modernization and the Civil-Military Divide
	4.2 The Circuit of Military Savoirs and the Modernization of Post-independence Armies (or, Europe is Where Latin America is Supposed to be)
	4.3 The Frictions and Fictions of the Civil-Military Boundary in the Colombian Army
	4.4 Conclusion
	References
5 “All They Understand Is Force”: The Military Professional as the Expert-Soldier
	5.1 The Re-articulation of the Circuit Around Counterinsurgency, an Old New Military Savoir
	5.2 (The Imperative of) Winning Hearts, Minds, and Populations in the Never-Ending Colombian War
	5.3 Successful Nonetheless: The Expert-Soldier and the Re-positioning of Colombia in the Global Circuit of Military Savoirs
	5.4 Conclusion
	References
6 Conclusion
	References
Bibliography
Index