Transnational Defense Networks. The Recent Case of the Colombian State in the Context of the Intervention of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

This article seeks to analyze the impact which the operation of the Inter-American Court Of Human Rights had in the Colombian case during the 2001–2006 period, inside a context of a multiplicity of pressing actors, who conforms a Transnational Advocacy Network (TAN). Based upon statements of realism, liberalism and, mainly, constructivism, the article studies the relationship between the pressing actors and the reactions that the Colombian state shows against the actors’ pressure. Finally, a diagnostic of the human rights situation in Colombia is made.