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Drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in the Americas today
Title
Drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in the Americas today [electronic resource] / edited by Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen.
ISBN
9780813055336
0813055334
9780813060682
0813060680
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Notes
Includes index.
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Summary
This book seeks to provide a clear picture of recent developments in drug trafficking in the Americas. Through analysis and empirical data, this study shows that the War on Drugs, declared by Reagan in 1982, has been ineffective at best and, at worst, has created major negative consequences for countries throughout the region.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Political Science and Policy Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2017
Contents
Preface: On the study of drug trafficking and organized crime networks in Latin America and the Caribbean in the twenty-first century
Introduction. drug trafficking and organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean in the twenty-first century: challenges to democracy / Bruce M. Bagley
U.S. drug policies at home and abroad
Coca, cocaine, and consumption: trends and antitrends / J. Bryan Page
Illegal drugs as a national security threat: securitization of drugs in the U.S. official discourse / Yulia Vorobyeva
The war on drugs and the role of southcom / Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
Mission creep: the U.S. military's counterdrug role in the Americas / Adam Isacson
Security challenges at the U.S.-Mexican border: understanding the security threats to state and local governments / Rocío A. Rivera Barradas
Drug-control policies in the United States: patterns, prevalence, and problems of drug use in the United States / Bruce M. Bagley
Drug trafficking and organized crime: country and regional analyses
Colombia
Colombia and its wars against drug trafficking, 1970-2010 / Elvira María Restrepo
Illicit drugs in the Colombia-U.S. relationship: review and prospects / Arlene B. Tickner and Carolina Cepeda
Escalating heroin consumption and the spread of HIV in Colombia: an emerging public health threat / Clyde McCoy, Daniel H. Ciccarone, Zelde Espinel Ben-Amy, Jeanene McCoy Bengoa, Oscar Bernal, Duane C. McBride, and James M. Shultz
Bolivia
Bolivian drug policy under the Morales Administration / Marten W. Brienen
Peru
The vicious cycle: the resurgence of drug production and drug trafficking in Peru / Marten W. Brienen and Jonathan D. Rosen
Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
In search of the Mrida initiative: from antecedents to practical results / Alberto Lozano-Vázquez and Jorge Rebolledo Flores
Police reform in Mexico: a never-ending story / Sigrid Arzt
Democracy, security, and organized crime in Central America / Francisco Rojas Aravena
Seeking out the state: organized crime, violence, and statetropism in the Caribbean / Lilian Bobea
Brazil
The power of organized crime in Brazil: from public and social challenges to the effectiveness of reforms / Marcelo Rocha and Silva Zorovich
Argentina
Under (loose) control: drug trafficking in Argentina in times of paradigm change / Khatchik Derghougassian and Glen Evans
Regional and international drug-control policies
The role of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission: confronting the problem of illegal drugs in the Americas / Betty Horwitz
The strategies of the European Union against drug trafficking / Roberto Domínguez
Analytical conclusions: the search for alternative drug policies in the Western Hemisphere / Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen.
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