Download or read book Borderland Battles written by Annette Idler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that borderlands intensify security threats at the conflict-crime nexus. It demonstrates the multiple insecurities that arise from complex interactions among rebels, criminals, and other violent non-state groups. Challenging urban biases and state-centric views, it draws on unprecedented multi-year fieldwork in the war-torn marginalized Colombian-Ecuadorian and Colombian-Venezuelan borderlands.