| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 341 pages) |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Drug control -- United States
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Drug control -- Mexico
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Drug traffic -- Mexican-American Border Region
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Drug control
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Drug traffic
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Social Welfare & Social Work.
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Social Sciences.
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Substance Abuse.
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Mexico
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North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Payan, Tony, 1967- editor.
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Staudt, Kathleen A., editor
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Kruszewski, Z. Anthony, editor
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| LC no. |
2013011197 |
| ISBN |
1299833098 |
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9781299833098 |
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9780816599158 |
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0816599157 |
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