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Mexico's security failure : collapse into criminal violence

Title
Mexico's security failure : collapse into criminal violence / edited by Paul Kenny and Mónica Serrano ; with Arturo Sotomayor.
ISBN
020380578X
1136650466
1136650504
1136650512
1280683554
6613660493
9780203805787
9781136650468
9781136650505
9781136650512
9781280683558
9786613660497
0415893275
0415893283
9780415893275
9780415893282
Published
New York : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 235 pages) : illustrations, map
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
English.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Mexico has failed to achieve internal security and poses a serious threat to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explain the failure there, but also reaches out to assess the impact of Mexico's security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the book-security failure-brings these perspectives together on an intermestic level of analysis. It is a view that runs counter to the standard emphasis on the external, trans-national nature of criminal threats to a largely inert state.Mexico's Security Failure is both timely,
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Mexico's security failure. New York : Routledge, 2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Security Failure Versus State Failure / Paul Kenny, Monica Serrano
The Background. The Mexican State and Organized Crime: an Unending Story / Paul Kenny, Monica Serrano ; Transition to Dystopia: 1994
2008 / Paul Kenny, Monica Serrano
Security Failure at Home ... Arbitrariness and Inefficiency in the Mexican Criminal Justice System / Ana Laura Magaloni ; Accounting for the Unaccountable: the Police in Mexico / Ernesto Lopez-Portillo ; Security Versus Human Rights: the Case of Contemporary Mexico / Alejandro Anaya Munoz
... and Abroad. Drug Trafficking and United States
Mexico Relations: Causes of Conflict / Jorge Chabat ; Mexico's War on Terrorism: Rhetoric and Reality / Athanasios Hristoulas
The Mesoamerican Dilemma: External Insecurity, Internal Vulnerability / Raul Benitez, Arturo Sotomayor
Conclusion: Authoritarian Evolution / Paul Kenny, Monica Serrano.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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