A war that can't be won : binational perspectives on the war on drugs /

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Other Authors: Payan, Tony, 1967- (Editor), Staudt, Kathleen A. (Editor), Kruszewski, Z. Anthony (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2013
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The many labyrinths of illegal drug policy: framing the issues / Tony Payan
  • Cartels, corruption, carnage, and cooperation / William C. Martin
  • President Felipe Calderón's strategy to combat organized crime / Marcos Pablo Moloeznik
  • Drug wars, social networks, and the right to information: informal media as freedom of the press in northern Mexico / Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, José Nava
  • Political protection and the origins of the Gulf Cartel / Carlos Antonio Flores Pérez
  • Organized crime as the highest threat to Mexican national security and democracy / Raúl Benítez Manaut
  • A federalist George W. Bush and an anti-federalist Barack Obama? The irony and paradoxes behind Republican and Democratic administration drug policies / José D. Villalobos
  • Caught in the middle: undocumented migrants' experiences with drug violence / Jeremy Slack, Scott Whiteford
  • Challenging foreign policy from the border: the forty-year war on drugs / Kathleen Staudt, Beto O'Rourke
  • The role of citizens and civil society in Mexico's security crisis / Daniel M. Sabet
  • Regulating drugs as a crime: a challenge for the social sciences / Israel Alvarado Martínez, Germán Guillén López
  • The U.S. causes but cannot (or will not) solve Mexico's drug problems / Jonathan P. Caulkins, Eric L. Sevigny
  • Conclusion: A war that can't be won? / Tony Payan, Kathleen Staudt.