Colombian Paramilitaries and Their Successor Groups

This essay reviews the following works: The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia. By Teo Ballvé. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 228. 27. 95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501747540. Paramilitarismo. Balance de la contribución del CNMH al esclarecimiento histórico. By Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica (CNMH). Bogotá: Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica, 2018. Pp. 234. Free e-book. ISBN: 9789585500051. Agrarian Capitalism, War and Peace in Colombia: Beyond Dispossession. By Jacobo Grajales. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 190. 44. 95 paperback. ISBN: 978036775707. Clientelistic Warfare: Paramilitaries and the State in Colombia (1982-2007). By Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. Pp. 480 pages. 72. 95 hardcover. ISBN: 9781787073654. Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War. By Annette Idler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 496. 29. 00 paper. ISBN: 9780190849153. Organized Violence after Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America. By Sarah Zukerman Daly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 344. 25. 00 paperback. ISBN: 9781107566835.