Nazih Richani
Biographic Data
| ID | 661635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nazih Richani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nazih |
| FAMILY NAME | Richani |
| SIGNATURE | RICHANI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kean University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Interplay of Rentierism, Homicides, and Deforestation
This article addresses core causes of violence in Colombia in addition to the political economy of violence. It examines the rentier economy and the new structure of the evolving system of violence following the signing of the Peace Accord in 2016 between the state and the FARC, the largest and oldest peasant-based guerrilla movement in Latin America. The subject of analysis includes the illicit activity of new actors, such as the FARC dissident …
Fragmented Hegemony and the Dismantling of the War System in Colombia
Establishing peace in Colombia has been an enigma escaping the best intentions of some presidents. The causes of this riddle are multiple. Some attributed it to the nature of the state-making process led by a fractured elite compounded with the state limited resources in a country with one of the most complex topographies in the world. This article tackles part of this puzzle, particularly the inability of any fraction of the elite to establish i…
The Political Economy and Complex Interdependency of the War System in Syria
Duration of civil wars has been an elusive area of study particularly because of the tedious task of disentangling the interplay of actors’ agencies, incentives' structures and constraints. This article tackles Syria’s civil war that has completed its fifth year with little hope for an end any time soon. I examine a plausible cause leading to its protraction. Namely the formation of a war system, which made the costs of war less than the expected…
The Agrarian Rentier Political Economy
Why is Colombia, a country with fertile arable lands, increasingly importing its food supply as a consequence of shrinking lands dedicated to crop production, whereas land inappropriate for pasture and livestock has been expanding exponentially? The answer lies in the land laws approved since the 1930s, coupled with the state’s economic policies, which have reduced the opportunity costs of investing in this sector. Both have provided an instituti…
A Rejuvenated Grassroots Movement in Colombia
State Capacity in Postconflict Settings
This article proposes a systemic approach to explore the determinants of homicides. This approach examines two interrelated factors: a) the interplay between state capacities and the opportunity costs of crime; and b) consequently, the political economy of this interplay. In this article I argue that weakened state capacities in the postconflict period in El Salvador and Guatemala have helped in the creation of a systemic relationship interlockin…
Voting Amid Violence
Journal Article Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia by Steven Taylor Get access Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombiaby Steven Taylor. Boston, MA, Northeastern University Press, 2009. 232pp. $50.00. Nazih Richani Nazih Richani Kean University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 125, Issue 1, Spring 2010, Pages 178–180, https://doi.org/10.100…
Caudillos and the crisis of the Colombian state
This article examines the rise of private militias within the historical context of the crisis of the Colombian nation-state. Taking a political economy approach, the paper attempts to assess the consequences of the emergence of the United Auto Defenses of Colombia (auc) for the country's political trajectory. It argues that the auc and the narco-bourgeoisie have created a new ‘reactionary class configuration’ that has regenerated a ‘labour-repre…
The Politics of Negotiating Peace in Colombia
Multinational Corporations, Rentier Capitalism, and the War System in Colombia
This article focuses on the role of multinational corporations in the Colombian conflict, particularly how they contributed to the escalation of land conflicts and to the violent transformation of the rural economy into one based on rentier capital. It also explores how these companies helped in fomenting and financing the war system, an element that could partly explain the protracted persistence of the Colombian conflict
Systems of Violence
Colombia At The Crossroads
Parts of the Colombian establishment want peace, but the peace process is opposed by the military, landowners, the middle class-and a newly powerful paramilitary
The Paramilitary Connection
The Colombian military has longstanding ties to brutal paramilitariesand therefore to narcotraffickers and murdererous land barons
The Political Economy of Violence
Violence, in its criminal and political aspects, largely reflects the contradictory impulses set in motion by modernization and serves as an expression of the various dislocations - social, economic, psychological and cultural - which accompany that process. Violence increases when the prevailing institutions fail to mediate among the various antagonistic forces unleashed by socio-economic and political change. Colombia represents a country where…
State Capacity in Postconflict Settings
This article proposes a systemic approach to explore the determinants of homicides. This approach examines two interrelated factors: a) the interplay between state capacities and the opportunity costs of crime; and b) consequently, the political economy of this interplay. In this article I argue that weakened state capacities in the postconflict period in El Salvador and Guatemala have helped in the creation of a systemic relationship interlockin…
Caudillos and the crisis of the Colombian state
This article examines the rise of private militias within the historical context of the crisis of the Colombian nation-state. Taking a political economy approach, the paper attempts to assess the consequences of the emergence of the United Auto Defenses of Colombia (auc) for the country's political trajectory. It argues that the auc and the narco-bourgeoisie have created a new ‘reactionary class configuration’ that has regenerated a ‘labour-repre…
The Political Economy and Complex Interdependency of the War System in Syria
Duration of civil wars has been an elusive area of study particularly because of the tedious task of disentangling the interplay of actors’ agencies, incentives' structures and constraints. This article tackles Syria’s civil war that has completed its fifth year with little hope for an end any time soon. I examine a plausible cause leading to its protraction. Namely the formation of a war system, which made the costs of war less than the expected…
The Political Economy of Violence
Violence, in its criminal and political aspects, largely reflects the contradictory impulses set in motion by modernization and serves as an expression of the various dislocations - social, economic, psychological and cultural - which accompany that process. Violence increases when the prevailing institutions fail to mediate among the various antagonistic forces unleashed by socio-economic and political change. Colombia represents a country where…
Multinational Corporations, Rentier Capitalism, and the War System in Colombia
This article focuses on the role of multinational corporations in the Colombian conflict, particularly how they contributed to the escalation of land conflicts and to the violent transformation of the rural economy into one based on rentier capital. It also explores how these companies helped in fomenting and financing the war system, an element that could partly explain the protracted persistence of the Colombian conflict
Fragmented Hegemony and the Dismantling of the War System in Colombia
Establishing peace in Colombia has been an enigma escaping the best intentions of some presidents. The causes of this riddle are multiple. Some attributed it to the nature of the state-making process led by a fractured elite compounded with the state limited resources in a country with one of the most complex topographies in the world. This article tackles part of this puzzle, particularly the inability of any fraction of the elite to establish i…
Systems of Violence
The Political Economy of Violence
Violence, in its criminal and political aspects, largely reflects the contradictory impulses set in motion by modernization and serves as an expression of the various dislocations - social, economic, psychological and cultural - which accompany that process. Violence increases when the prevailing institutions fail to mediate among the various antagonistic forces unleashed by socio-economic and political change. Colombia represents a country where…
The Paramilitary Connection
The Colombian military has longstanding ties to brutal paramilitariesand therefore to narcotraffickers and murdererous land barons
Colombia At The Crossroads
Parts of the Colombian establishment want peace, but the peace process is opposed by the military, landowners, the middle class-and a newly powerful paramilitary
Systems of Violence
The Politics of Negotiating Peace in Colombia
Multinational Corporations, Rentier Capitalism, and the War System in Colombia
This article focuses on the role of multinational corporations in the Colombian conflict, particularly how they contributed to the escalation of land conflicts and to the violent transformation of the rural economy into one based on rentier capital. It also explores how these companies helped in fomenting and financing the war system, an element that could partly explain the protracted persistence of the Colombian conflict
Caudillos and the crisis of the Colombian state
This article examines the rise of private militias within the historical context of the crisis of the Colombian nation-state. Taking a political economy approach, the paper attempts to assess the consequences of the emergence of the United Auto Defenses of Colombia (auc) for the country's political trajectory. It argues that the auc and the narco-bourgeoisie have created a new ‘reactionary class configuration’ that has regenerated a ‘labour-repre…
State Capacity in Postconflict Settings
This article proposes a systemic approach to explore the determinants of homicides. This approach examines two interrelated factors: a) the interplay between state capacities and the opportunity costs of crime; and b) consequently, the political economy of this interplay. In this article I argue that weakened state capacities in the postconflict period in El Salvador and Guatemala have helped in the creation of a systemic relationship interlockin…
Voting Amid Violence
Journal Article Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia by Steven Taylor Get access Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombiaby Steven Taylor. Boston, MA, Northeastern University Press, 2009. 232pp. $50.00. Nazih Richani Nazih Richani Kean University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 125, Issue 1, Spring 2010, Pages 178–180, https://doi.org/10.100…
The Agrarian Rentier Political Economy
Why is Colombia, a country with fertile arable lands, increasingly importing its food supply as a consequence of shrinking lands dedicated to crop production, whereas land inappropriate for pasture and livestock has been expanding exponentially? The answer lies in the land laws approved since the 1930s, coupled with the state’s economic policies, which have reduced the opportunity costs of investing in this sector. Both have provided an instituti…
A Rejuvenated Grassroots Movement in Colombia
The Political Economy and Complex Interdependency of the War System in Syria
Duration of civil wars has been an elusive area of study particularly because of the tedious task of disentangling the interplay of actors’ agencies, incentives' structures and constraints. This article tackles Syria’s civil war that has completed its fifth year with little hope for an end any time soon. I examine a plausible cause leading to its protraction. Namely the formation of a war system, which made the costs of war less than the expected…
Fragmented Hegemony and the Dismantling of the War System in Colombia
Establishing peace in Colombia has been an enigma escaping the best intentions of some presidents. The causes of this riddle are multiple. Some attributed it to the nature of the state-making process led by a fractured elite compounded with the state limited resources in a country with one of the most complex topographies in the world. This article tackles part of this puzzle, particularly the inability of any fraction of the elite to establish i…
The Interplay of Rentierism, Homicides, and Deforestation
This article addresses core causes of violence in Colombia in addition to the political economy of violence. It examines the rentier economy and the new structure of the evolving system of violence following the signing of the Peace Accord in 2016 between the state and the FARC, the largest and oldest peasant-based guerrilla movement in Latin America. The subject of analysis includes the illicit activity of new actors, such as the FARC dissident …
Political science (13 works) · History and Politics in Latin America (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works)