Nationbuilding and Civil War: Diverging Views of State and Society in Late 19th Century Colombia

Authors

  • Stephen Randall University of Calgary

Abstract

This article examines the course of the Liberal-Conservative conflicts in Colombia in the late nineteenth century, the efforts to establish a stronger central state, and the culmination of those conflicts in the War of a Thousand Days at the end of the century.

Author Biography

Stephen Randall, University of Calgary

Stephen J. Randall, FRSC, (PhD Toronto 1972), is Professor Emeritus and Faculty Professor at the University of Calgary. He served as Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences (1994-2006); Director of the Institute for United States Policy Research (2006-2009); Director Latin American Research Centre (2010-14).  He held previous appointments at McGill University (1974-1989), and the University of Toronto (1971-1974).  He was a member of the editorial board of the Latin American Research Review (2004-2009), and was co-editor of International Journal of the Canadian Institute for International Affairs. He is the author or co-author of a number of books which focus on inter-American relations.  Among them are: The Diplomacy of Modernization: The United States and Colombia, 1920-1940 (1977); United States Foreign Oil Policy (1984);  Hegemony and Interdependence: Colombia and the United States (1992); Ambivalent Allies: Canada and the United States( 4 editions  1994, 1996, 2002, 2008 with John H. Thompson); Canada and Latin America (1992, with Mark O. Dickerson); Federalism and the New World Order (1994, with Roger Gibbins); An International History of the Caribbean Basin(1998, with Graeme S. Mount); North America Without Borders(1992, with Herman Konrad); NAFTA in Transition( 1995, with Herman Konrad).   His most recent books are: United States foreign oil policy since World War I. (2005);  Alfonso López Michelsen, su vida, su epoca (2007). Not Just about Drugs: Colombian-American Relations Since 1974 will be published by Random House Colombia in 2016.

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Published

2015-12-31

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2015)

Section

CMSS Summer Workshop in Grand Strategy