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Drug traffic -- Latin America.
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Drug traffic -- United States.
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Organized crime -- Latin America.
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Organized crime -- United States.
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Violence -- Latin America.
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Violence -- United States.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (xx, 437 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| 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. |
| Note |
English. |
| Alt author |
Bagley, Bruce Michael, editor.
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Rosen, Jonathan D., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813055336 (electronic bk.) |
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0813055334 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813050935 |
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0813050936 |
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9780813060682 |
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0813060680 |
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