|
Showing 1 - 25 of
63 matches in All Departments
In 1971, Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Despite foreign
policy efforts and attempts to combat supply lines, the United
States has been for decades, and remains today, the largest single
consumer market for illicit drugs on the planet. In this volume,
Bruce Bagley and Jonathan Rosen illustrate that the war on drugs
has been ineffective at best and, at worst, has been highly
detrimental to countries throughout the region. They present a
clear picture of drug trafficking and its role in organized crime
while discussing the major trends of the war on drugs in the
twentyfirst century, as well as its future. With this comprehensive
overview, Bagley and Rosen develop a framework for understanding
the limits and liabilities in the U.S.-championed war on drugs
throughout the Americas.
War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US
security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the
current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with
creative and effective solutions. This book considers new,
'non-traditional' security issues such as: transnational organized
crime, immigration and border security, cybersecurity, countering
violent extremism and terrorism, environmental and energy security,
as well as the rise of external actors. The work examines the major
challenges and trends in security and explores the policy responses
of the U.S. government. By using international relations theory as
an analytical approach, Fonseca and Rosen present how these
security threats have evolved over time.
The US-led war on drugs has failed: drugs remain purer, cheaper and
more readily available than ever. Extreme levels of violence have
also grown as drug traffickers and organized criminals compete for
control of territory. This book points towards a number of crucial
challenges, policy solutions and alternatives to the current drug
strategies.
Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First
Century illustrates the various security concerns in the Americas
in the twenty-first century. It presents the work of a number of
prolific scholars and analysts in the region. The book offers new
theoretical and analytical perspectives. Within the Americas, we
find a number of important issues security issues. Most important
are the threats that supersede borders: drug trafficking,
migration, health, and environmental. These threats change our
understanding of security and the state and regional process of
neutralizing or correcting these threats. This volume evaluates
these threats within contemporary security discourse.
This book examines the U.S. war on drugs at home and abroad. It
provides a brief history of the war on drugs. In addition, it
analyzes drug trafficking and organized crime in Colombia and
Mexico, and the role of the United States government in
counternarcotics policies. This work also examines the opioid
epidemic, addiction, and alternative policies.
This book explores global drug trafficking networks' impact on
international security and provides an in-depth analysis of drug
trafficking networks globally by integrating international
relations and security studies theories. The book acts as a primer,
simplifying the complicated world of narcotics and insecurity,
while also providing policy recommendations for policy-makers
hoping to reduce the power of organized criminal and terrorist
networks globally. It will be of interest to undergraduate and
postgraduates taking courses in International Relations, Global
Politics, Defense Studies, Security Studies, and International
Political Economy, as well as Criminal Justice, Sociology, and
other social science disciplines that cover issues related to drug
trafficking, organized crime, and violence.
Leading scholars and policy analysts from around the Americas come
together to untangle the factors that have fuelled the
implementation of mano dura politics, their rising popularity, and
impacts across nine widely heterogeneous countries in Latin
America. Beginning with a discussion on the concept of mano dura,
the editors move to survey various theoretical approaches to
punitivism, and later review of the empirical research evaluating
different drivers behind the adoption of tough on crime policies.
Since hard-line initiatives often have consequences beyond the
general goal of reducing violence, they then analyze the impacts of
these policing strategies on crime rates and different democratic
institutions. Country chapters on Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras,
Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina follow
a common thematic structure to answer the following questions: What
are some of the trends in gangs, organized crime, and violence? How
have governments responded to combat crime and violence? What
factors have fuelled the implementation of mano dura policies? Why
are mano dura policies popular? What have the consequences of these
policies been? Mano Dura Policies in Latin America is essential
reading to students of Latin American studies, political science,
public policy, and criminal justice. It will also interest scholars
working on drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in Latin
America.
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized
crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing
the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the
nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from
Central America to the Southern Cone.
|
Corruption in the Americas (Paperback)
Jonathan D. Rosen, Hanna S Kassab; Contributions by Adriana Beltran, Marten Brienen, Fernando Cepeda Ulloa, …
|
R1,017
Discovery Miles 10 170
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
For some states in Latin America, corruption is not simply an
industry, but rather it is part of the political system. This
collection studies the nature of corruption and its recent trends
through expert contributions from scholars from the region who have
diverse scholarly backgrounds, theoretical orientations, and
methodologies. Through case studies of countries throughout the
Americas, the contributors analyze the links between corruption and
organized crime, the main actors involved in corruption,
governmental responses to corruption, and the impact that
corruption has on governmental institutions and people's faith in
them.
In this succinct text, Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab
explore the linkage between weak institutions and government
policies designed to combat drug trafficking, organized crime, and
violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine
criminal violence and publicly available survey data from the Latin
American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to conduct regression
analysis, individual case studies on Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador,
and Nicaragua highlight the major challenges that governments face
and how they have responded to various security issues. Rosen and
Kassab later turn their attention to the role of external criminal
actors in the region and offer policy recommendations and lessons
learned. Questions explored include: What are the major trends in
organized crime in this country? How has organized crime evolved
over time? Who are the major criminal actors? How has state
fragility contributed to organized crime and violence (and vice
versa)? What has been the government's response to drug trafficking
and organized crime? Have such policies contributed to violence?
Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America is suitable to both
undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice,
international relations, political science, comparative politics,
international political economy, organized crime, drug trafficking,
and violence.
|
Violence in the Americas (Paperback)
Jonathan D. Rosen, Hanna S Kassab; Contributions by Sebastian a Cutrona, Thiago Rodrigues, Mariana Kalil, …
|
R1,026
Discovery Miles 10 260
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high
levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence, which has
created elements of fragility. The book is comprises case studies
that explore the nature of violence in countries throughout the
region. Moreover, it seeks to address some of the ways in which
governments have sought to address violence. The cases examined in
this volume are quite diverse, illustrating different types of
violence as all of the countries in Latin America are not the same.
Countries like Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico
have high levels of drug trafficking and organized crime.
Strategies designed to combat drug trafficking organization,
particularly in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, and counter-gang
strategies in Central America have help foment violence as these
various criminal organizations have responded to such government
policies. Yet other countries, like Peru and Bolivia, have much
lower levels of violence. However, the perception of insecurity is
quite high despite the fact that Peru has one of the lower homicide
rates in the country. On the other hand, the nature of violence in
Bolivia is quite different. This country does not have a homicide
rate like El Salvador, but the country has witnessed public
lynchings and other forms of violence. This volume is an effort to
better understand the major trends in political violence in this
particularly violent region.
|
Corruption in the Americas (Hardcover)
Jonathan D. Rosen, Hanna S Kassab; Contributions by Adriana Beltran, Marten Brienen, Fernando Cepeda Ulloa, …
|
R2,362
Discovery Miles 23 620
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
For some states in Latin America, corruption is not simply an
industry, but rather it is part of the political system. This
collection studies the nature of corruption and its recent trends
through expert contributions from scholars from the region who have
diverse scholarly backgrounds, theoretical orientations, and
methodologies. Through case studies of countries throughout the
Americas, the contributors analyze the links between corruption and
organized crime, the main actors involved in corruption,
governmental responses to corruption, and the impact that
corruption has on governmental institutions and people's faith in
them.
In this succinct text, Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab
explore the linkage between weak institutions and government
policies designed to combat drug trafficking, organized crime, and
violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine
criminal violence and publicly available survey data from the Latin
American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to conduct regression
analysis, individual case studies on Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador,
and Nicaragua highlight the major challenges that governments face
and how they have responded to various security issues. Rosen and
Kassab later turn their attention to the role of external criminal
actors in the region and offer policy recommendations and lessons
learned. Questions explored include: What are the major trends in
organized crime in this country? How has organized crime evolved
over time? Who are the major criminal actors? How has state
fragility contributed to organized crime and violence (and vice
versa)? What has been the government's response to drug trafficking
and organized crime? Have such policies contributed to violence?
Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America is suitable to both
undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice,
international relations, political science, comparative politics,
international political economy, organized crime, drug trafficking,
and violence.
This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout
human history and provides recommendations to governments.
Organized criminal networks increased in strength after the
enforcement of prohibition, eventually challenging the authority of
the state and its institutions through corruption and violence.
Criminal networks now organize under cyber-infrastructure, what we
call the Deep or Dark Web. The authors analyze how illicit markets
come together, issues of destabilization and international
security, the effect of legitimate enterprises crowded out of
developing countries, and ultimately, illicit markets' cost to
human life.
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized
crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing
the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the
nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from
Central America to the Southern Cone.
This book examines the history of United States foreign policy
toward Cuba, focusing on critical junctures and recent strategic
shifts. Restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, which were
severed officially in January 1961, was a huge shift in U.S.
foreign policy. Relations between Cuba and the United States were
tumultuous throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and
almost escalated into full blown nuclear war in October 1962 during
the Cuban missile crisis. The restoration of diplomatic relations
marks a fundamental departure as the two countries chart a new
course into the twenty-first century. This book traces over seven
hundred years of history, setting the context to base an argument
in favor of rapprochement. It illustrates the importance of the
Cuba deal to break with the past and delegitimize anti-Americanism
in the world.
Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The
Transition from Felipe Calderon to Enrique Pena Nieto examines the
major trends in organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. The
book provides an exhaustive analysis of drug-related violence in
the country. This work highlights the transition from the Felipe
Calderon administration to the Enrique Pena Nieto government,
focusing on differences and continuities in counternarcotics
policies as well as other trends such as violence and drug
trafficking.
|
Violence in the Americas (Hardcover)
Jonathan D. Rosen, Hanna S Kassab; Contributions by Sebastian a Cutrona, Thiago Rodrigues, Mariana Kalil, …
|
R2,639
Discovery Miles 26 390
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high
levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence, which has
created elements of fragility. The book is comprises case studies
that explore the nature of violence in countries throughout the
region. Moreover, it seeks to address some of the ways in which
governments have sought to address violence. The cases examined in
this volume are quite diverse, illustrating different types of
violence as all of the countries in Latin America are not the same.
Countries like Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico
have high levels of drug trafficking and organized crime.
Strategies designed to combat drug trafficking organization,
particularly in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, and counter-gang
strategies in Central America have help foment violence as these
various criminal organizations have responded to such government
policies. Yet other countries, like Peru and Bolivia, have much
lower levels of violence. However, the perception of insecurity is
quite high despite the fact that Peru has one of the lower homicide
rates in the country. On the other hand, the nature of violence in
Bolivia is quite different. This country does not have a homicide
rate like El Salvador, but the country has witnessed public
lynchings and other forms of violence. This volume is an effort to
better understand the major trends in political violence in this
particularly violent region.
The Americas face many security challenges, including drug
trafficking, organized crime, guerrilla movements, terrorism, and
environmental challenges. Experts have long debated whether some
countries in the region can be classified as failed states. While
various states in the Americas have been labeled as failed states,
calling a country a failed state is quite controversial and
requires a precise definition of what constitutes a failed state.
This book instead discusses fragile states in the Americas. Fragile
states are weak states that are fertile grounds for organized crime
groups and illegal actors as such groups are able to infiltrate the
state apparatus through corruption. The goal of this book is to
examine fragile states in the region and the major security
challenges that these states face. The cause of state fragility is
different for various states. Theoretically, the work will
conceptualize the meaning of fragility as it relates to state
survival and autonomy. Empirically, the book focuses on
contemporary threats to the survival of fragile states in the
Americas. The book explains and analyzes the main political,
security, and economic challenges of these states. It employs a
wide array of cases that delve into the security and economic
threats and priorities of states in the Americas.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Southpaw
Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, …
DVD
R99
R24
Discovery Miles 240
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R66
Discovery Miles 660
|