Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín is Professor and Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.José A. Gutiérrez is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia.

• Introduction—State, political power and criminality in civil war: an editorial revisiting old debates from different angles  1 Power and crime: a theoretical sketch  2 Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: criminalised economies and statebuilding in the Colombian conflict  3 The difference mafias make: a triadic model of organized crime in ethnic conflicts  4 Illicit economies and political opportunity: the case of the Colombian paramilitaries (1982–2007)  5 Organized crime in Serbian politics during the Yugoslav wars  6 Colombian state reactions to peace: the legacies of the narcoguerrillanarcoterrorist discourses  7 The varieties of paramilitaries paper present to Dublin zoom conference June 10, 2021  8 Violence diffusion, illegal accumulation and norms of criminal authority: alternative configurations of politics and power in the 21st century?  9 Crime, violence, and coercive power  10 The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes

Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín is Professor and Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.José A. Gutiérrez is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia.

• Introduction—State, political power and criminality in civil war: an editorial revisiting old debates from different angles  1 Power and crime: a theoretical sketch  2 Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: criminalised economies and statebuilding in the Colombian conflict  3 The difference mafias make: a triadic model of organized crime in ethnic conflicts  4 Illicit economies and political opportunity: the case of the Colombian paramilitaries (1982–2007)  5 Organized crime in Serbian politics during the Yugoslav wars  6 Colombian state reactions to peace: the legacies of the narcoguerrillanarcoterrorist discourses  7 The varieties of paramilitaries paper present to Dublin zoom conference June 10, 2021  8 Violence diffusion, illegal accumulation and norms of criminal authority: alternative configurations of politics and power in the 21st century?  9 Crime, violence, and coercive power  10 The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes

Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín is Professor and Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.José A. Gutiérrez is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia.

• Introduction—State, political power and criminality in civil war: an editorial revisiting old debates from different angles  1 Power and crime: a theoretical sketch  2 Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: criminalised economies and statebuilding in the Colombian conflict  3 The difference mafias make: a triadic model of organized crime in ethnic conflicts  4 Illicit economies and political opportunity: the case of the Colombian paramilitaries (1982–2007)  5 Organized crime in Serbian politics during the Yugoslav wars  6 Colombian state reactions to peace: the legacies of the narcoguerrillanarcoterrorist discourses  7 The varieties of paramilitaries paper present to Dublin zoom conference June 10, 2021  8 Violence diffusion, illegal accumulation and norms of criminal authority: alternative configurations of politics and power in the 21st century?  9 Crime, violence, and coercive power  10 The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes