Revolutionary Emotions: The Roots of Revolutionary Waves. By Silvana Toska. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 328p.

Overall, Angelo overstates Colombia's successes of 2000-2011, which appear more tactical than strategic.Despite efforts to couple greater security with the state's provision of social services in conflictive areas, the government never spread effective state authority throughout Colombia's territory.Similarly,the failure ofstateforces tooccupy the spaces vacated by the FARC following their 2016 demobilization created a vacuum now exploited by numerous FARC splinter groups, the ELN, and drug trafficking organizations.Angelo acknowledges the severity of Colombia's "false positives" human rights scandal, in which the armed forces killed innocent civilians and dressed them in guerrilla uniforms to inflate body counts.But he underplays the Uribe administration's failure to curb paramilitary violence during the early years of the democratic security policy, as well as the United States' own double standard toward guerrilla and paramilitary abuses.In addition, the book would have benefited from a more nuanced treatment of the tensions between the counter-narcotics and counterinsurgency missions at the outset of Plan Colombia.Finally, by emphasizing domestic variables in Colombia and Mexico, Angelo sidesteps the ways drug-consuming countries fuel violence in Latin America, both through the constant demand for drugs and the supply of high-powered weapons that make cartel violence all the more lethal.