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This critical book assesses the current trade policy challenges
facing the US and offers a series of recommendations which, if
implemented, have the potential to improve both US domestic trade
policy and international foreign policy. Focusing on the reform of
the WTO, the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada
Agreement and the continuing rivalry between the US and China, The
Future of Trade crucially advances the ongoing dialogue between US
governments and stakeholders. This timely analysis proposes a
clear, dynamic and comprehensive series of recommendations through
an interdisciplinary approach analysing law, economics and public
policy in relation to the US home economy and its position in the
global economic order. Chapters propose key suggestions, including
rebuilding support for an open trading system; fostering
integration between the United States, Canada and Mexico; and a
restructuring of the WTO to create an equal system for all members.
As many world powers retreat from globalisation, David A. Gantz and
Tony Payan argue that the US faces long-term challenges which will
require effective non-controversial policy at both a national and
international level. An invaluable resource for public policy, law,
and politics scholars, particularly those focusing on trade policy,
this comprehensive book will also be of crucial benefit to US
government officials in trade bureaucracy, foreign officials, and
members of State and Congress in the department of trade.
Cops, Soldiers, and Diplomats is an exceptionally clear exposition
of bureaucratic behavior amongst various agencies as each responded
to the challenges of the War on Drugs. Chapter by chapter, author
Tony Payan exposes the bureaucratic imperatives of the numerous
agencies waging the drug war, uncovering some of the fundamental
structural reasons why this war could not succeed within the United
States: fragmentation, competition, duplication, jealousy,
turf-wars, information hiding, and ultimate failure. Payan's work
will be certain to find an audience with politicians and policy
makers, students of sociology and criminology, and any one
interested in the drug war.
Cops, Soldiers, and Diplomats is an exceptionally clear exposition
of bureaucratic behavior amongst various agencies as each responded
to the challenges of the War on Drugs. Chapter by chapter, author
Tony Payan exposes the bureaucratic imperatives of the numerous
agencies waging the drug war, uncovering some of the fundamental
structural reasons why this war could not succeed within the United
States: fragmentation, competition, duplication, jealousy,
turf-wars, information hiding, and ultimate failure. Payan's work
will be certain to find an audience with politicians and policy
makers, students of sociology and criminology, and any one
interested in the drug war.
There is a broad consensus that the United States’ immigration
system is broken, yet the political momentum behind the movement
has not yet led to a consensus on how to fix it. This momentum has
stemmed from the agreement that we have an immigration “crisis”
on our hands – millions of undocumented immigrants living and
working in the United States under increasingly harsh conditions,
tremendous spending on border security and enforcement measures
without protection of civil rights, changing voter demographics,
and other pressing issues have ushered in the moment for
immigration reform. This book presents research and policy
recommendations from leading U.S. immigration experts and scholars,
who have many valuable insights and nuanced perspectives to offer
to the current debate on immigration reform. The goal of this
immigration study is to disseminate knowledge and policy
recommendations to scholars, government officials, the media, and
the general policy community on vital issues regarding the present
question of immigration reform. This book discusses the future
prospects of immigration reform and delves into various details,
options, and obstacles related to immigration reform. The chapters
presented shed light on a number of issues that are currently being
debated in the immigration bill. Some of them address the salience
of the immigration issue in Latino political behavior and the
impact of demographic context. Other papers hone in on the
landscape of legislative initiatives addressing immigration at the
state and local levels, and some authors address the implications
of immigration reform for the labor market and economic climate.
The book will be of interest to both scholars and policy-makers
concerned with immigration in the United States.
There is a broad consensus that the United States' immigration
system is broken, yet the political momentum behind the movement
has not yet led to a consensus on how to fix it. This momentum has
stemmed from the agreement that we have an immigration "crisis" on
our hands - millions of undocumented immigrants living and working
in the United States under increasingly harsh conditions,
tremendous spending on border security and enforcement measures
without protection of civil rights, changing voter demographics,
and other pressing issues have ushered in the moment for
immigration reform. This book presents research and policy
recommendations from leading U.S. immigration experts and scholars,
who have many valuable insights and nuanced perspectives to offer
to the current debate on immigration reform. The goal of this
immigration study is to disseminate knowledge and policy
recommendations to scholars, government officials, the media, and
the general policy community on vital issues regarding the present
question of immigration reform. This book discusses the future
prospects of immigration reform and delves into various details,
options, and obstacles related to immigration reform. The chapters
presented shed light on a number of issues that are currently being
debated in the immigration bill. Some of them address the salience
of the immigration issue in Latino political behavior and the
impact of demographic context. Other papers hone in on the
landscape of legislative initiatives addressing immigration at the
state and local levels, and some authors address the implications
of immigration reform for the labor market and economic climate.
The book will be of interest to both scholars and policy-makers
concerned with immigration in the United States.
In North America and Europe, cross-border governance arrangements
have provided formal and informal frameworks to support
cross-border cooperation. Analysing how these frameworks have
emerged, the ways in which they have become institutionalized, and
the processes by which they change is fundamental. Moreover, these
frameworks are increasingly challenged by border securitization,
limiting or jeopardizing decades of cross-border cooperative
governance and coordinated public policies. Agents and Structures
in Cross-Border Governance offers a series of case studies
exploring these complex dynamics in the borders of the twenty-first
century in both continents. To understand a range of cross-border
governance frameworks, this collection addresses such topics as
infrastructure development and management, resource sharing,
regional politics, economics, security, human rights, the
environment, culture, and community. The book explains how
cross-border governance schemes have sought to mitigate some of the
negative consequences of border security policies, allowing readers
to discern how concrete national power struggles between
federal/national and subnational governments unfold in border
areas. In a world increasingly impacted by climate change and more
recently the COVID-19 pandemic, Agents and Structures in
Cross-Border Governance sheds light on the ongoing complexity of
cross-border governance and offers lessons to help mitigate these
challenges.
More than forty years have passed since President Richard Nixon
described illegal drugs as "public enemy number one" and declared a
"War on Drugs." Recently the United Nations Global Commission on
Drug Policy declared that "the global war on drugs has failed with
devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the
world." Arguably, no other country has suffered as much from the
War on Drugs as Mexico. From 2006 to 2012 alone, at least sixty
thousand people have died. Some experts have said that the actual
number is more than one hundred thousand. Because the war was
conceived and structured by US policymakers and officials, many
commentators believe that the United States is deeply implicated in
the bloodshed."
A War that Can't Be Won" is the first book to include
contributions from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
It provides a unique breadth of perspective on the many dimensions
of the societal crisis that affects residents of both
nations--particularly those who live and work in the borderlands.
It also proposes practical steps toward solving a crisis that shows
no signs of abating under current policies. Each chapter is based
on well-documented data, including previously unavailable evidence
that was obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in
Mexico. By bringing together views from both sides of the border,
as well as from various academic disciplines, this volume offers a
much wider view of a complex problem--and possible solutions.
Much political oratory has been devoted to safeguarding America's
boundary with Mexico, but policies that militarize the border and
criminalize immigrants have overshadowed the region's widespread
violence against women, the increase in crossing deaths, and the
lingering poverty that spurs people to set out on dangerous
northward treks. This book addresses those concerns by focusing on
gender-based violence, security, and human rights from the
perspective of women who live with both violence and poverty.
From the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, scholars from both sides
of the 2,000-mile border reflect expertise in disciplines ranging
from international relations to criminal justice, conveying a more
complex picture of the region than that presented in other studies.
Initial chapters offer an overview of routine sexual assaults on
women migrants, the harassment of Central American immigrants at
the hands of authorities and residents, corruption and
counterfeiting along the border, and near-death experiences of
border crossers. Subsequent chapters then connect analysis with
solutions in the form of institutional change, social movement
activism, policy reform, and the spread of international norms that
respect human rights as well as good governance.
These chapters show how all facets of the border
situation--globalization, NAFTA, economic inequality, organized
crime, political corruption, rampant patriarchy--promote gendered
violence and other expressions of hyper-masculinity. They also show
that U.S. immigration policy exacerbates the problems of border
violence--in marked contrast to the border policies of European
countries.
By focusing on women's everyday experiences in order to understand
human security issues, these contributions offer broad-based
alternative approaches and solutions that address everyday violence
and inattention to public safety, inequalities, poverty, and human
rights. And by presenting a social and democratic international
feminist framework to address these issues, they offer the
opportunity to transform today's security debate in constructive
ways.
This book addresses the three central issues that continue to
dominate the U.S.-Mexico relationship today: drugs, immigration,
and security. Nowhere is this more palpable than at the 2,000-mile
border shared by the two countries. The U.S.-Mexico border remains
a hot topic in the news-and a contentious one. This second edition
of a popular work brings readers up to date on what is really going
on at the U.S.-Mexico border and why. The book offers a detailed,
history-based examination of the evolution of current conditions on
the border, arguing that they exist due to a steady growth in the
security concerns of the United States over almost two centuries.
The author shows how the border has gone through four historical
stages that, ultimately, have crippled the region, sacrificing its
ability to produce prosperity in exchange for greater security.
Combining depth and breadth, the book covers the economic
relationship between Mexico and the United States, the deployment
of technology, the bureaucratic interests that control the border
landscape, the democratic deficit, and a detrimental lack of policy
coordination. Issues such as drug trafficking and homeland security
are considered as well. Demonstrating the internal and
contradictory logic of American policy toward the border, the
author argues that current conditions could lead to a return of
authoritarianism in Mexico and a concurrent rise in anti-American
sentiment. Provides a historical perspective that is necessary to
understand today's border conflicts Includes new coverage of
weapons trafficking, human trafficking, the diversified activities
of organized crime, the role of drug consumption in America, the
decay of the border infrastructure, the militarization of the
border, and the effects of Arizona's immigration policy changes
Challenges current views about the border as unsafe, unstable,
crime-riddled, and a burden on the nation Portrays the border as a
place of hope in need of better management rather than
reinforcement of the security regime that has prevailed in the last
decades Includes a chapter on the Pena government and its effect on
the binational relationship, the war on the Cartels, and escalation
of violence Draws on the author's current research and interviews
with new government actors Offers penetrating analysis and sound
policy recommendations, particularly on how to achieve a truly
binational border management system Features a new final chapter
that projects the future of the border over the next 25 years
Much political oratory has been devoted to safeguarding America's
boundary with Mexico, but policies that militarize the border and
criminalize immigrants have overshadowed the region's widespread
violence against women, the increase in crossing deaths, and the
lingering poverty that spurs people to set out on dangerous
northward treks. This book addresses those concerns by focusing on
gender-based violence, security, and human rights from the
perspective of women who live with both violence and poverty.
From the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, scholars from both sides
of the 2,000-mile border reflect expertise in disciplines ranging
from international relations to criminal justice, conveying a more
complex picture of the region than that presented in other studies.
Initial chapters offer an overview of routine sexual assaults on
women migrants, the harassment of Central American immigrants at
the hands of authorities and residents, corruption and
counterfeiting along the border, and near-death experiences of
border crossers. Subsequent chapters then connect analysis with
solutions in the form of institutional change, social movement
activism, policy reform, and the spread of international norms that
respect human rights as well as good governance.
These chapters show how all facets of the border
situation--globalization, NAFTA, economic inequality, organized
crime, political corruption, rampant patriarchy--promote gendered
violence and other expressions of hyper-masculinity. They also show
that U.S. immigration policy exacerbates the problems of border
violence--in marked contrast to the border policies of European
countries.
By focusing on women's everyday experiences in order to understand
human security issues, these contributions offer broad-based
alternative approaches and solutions that address everyday violence
and inattention to public safety, inequalities, poverty, and human
rights. And by presenting a social and democratic international
feminist framework to address these issues, they offer the
opportunity to transform today's security debate in constructive
ways.
More than forty years have passed since President Richard Nixon
described illegal drugs as "public enemy number one" and declared a
"War on Drugs." Recently the United Nations Global Commission on
Drug Policy declared that "the global war on drugs has failed with
devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the
world." Arguably, no other country has suffered as much from the
War on Drugs as Mexico. From 2006 to 2012 alone, at least sixty
thousand people have died. Some experts have said that the actual
number is more than one hundred thousand. Because the war was
conceived and structured by US policymakers and officials, many
commentators believe that the United States is deeply implicated in
the bloodshed.
"A War that Can't Be Won" is the first book to include
contributions from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
It provides a unique breadth of perspective on the many dimensions
of the societal crisis that affects residents of both
nations--particularly those who live and work in the borderlands.
It also proposes practical steps toward solving a crisis that shows
no signs of abating under current policies. Each chapter is based
on well-documented data, including previously unavailable evidence
that was obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in
Mexico. By bringing together views from both sides of the border,
as well as from various academic disciplines, this volume offers a
much wider view of a complex problem--and possible solutions.
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