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Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today

Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen

Abstract

This book examines the major trends in drug trafficking and organized crime in the Americas in the twenty-first century. We have compiled a list of leading experts in the field. The book explores U.S. drug policies within the U.S. as well as abroad and examines drug-trafficking and organized crime in specific countries and regions. The book also analyzes regional and international drug control policies.

Keywords: Drug trafficking, organized crime, the Americas, security, violence

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780813060682
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813060682.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Bruce M. Bagley, editor
University of Miami

Jonathan D. Rosen, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Figures

Tables

Preface On the Study of Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Twenty-First Century

Acknowledgments

Introduction Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Twenty-First Century

Bruce M. Bagley

I U.S. Drug Policies at Home and Abroad

1 Coca, Cocaine, and Consumption

J. Bryan Page

2 Illegal Drugs as a National Security Threat

Yulia Vorobyeva

3 The War on Drugs and the Role of SOUTHCOM

Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

4 Mission Creep

Adam Isacson

5 Security Challenges at the U.S.-Mexican Border

Rocío A. Rivera Barradas

6 Drug-Control Policies in the United States

Bruce M. Bagley

II Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime: Country and Regional Analyses

7 Colombia and Its Wars against Drug Trafficking, 1970–2010

Elvira María Restrepo

8 Illicit Drugs in the Colombia-U.S. Relationship

Arlene B. Tickner and Carolina Cepeda

9 Escalating Heroin Consumption and the Spread of HIV in Colombia

Clyde McCoy, Daniel H. Ciccarone, Zelde Espinel Ben-Amy, Jeanene McCoy Bengoa, Oscar Bernal, Duane C. McBride, and James M. Shultz

10 Bolivian Drug Policy under the Morales Administration

Marten W. Brienen

11 The Vicious Cycle

Marten W. Brienen and Jonathan D. Rosen

12 In Search of the Mérida Initiative

Alberto Lozano-Vázquez and Jorge Rebolledo Flores

13 Police Reform in Mexico

Sigrid Arzt

14 Democracy, Security, and Organized Crime in Central America

Francisco Rojas Aravena

15 Seeking Out the State

Lilian Bobea

16 The Power of Organized Crime in Brazil

Marcelo Rocha E Silva Zorovich

17 Under (Loose) Control

Khatchik Derghougassian and Glen Evans

III Regional and International Drug-Control Policies

18 The Role of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission

Betty Horwitz

19 The Strategies of the European Union against Drug Trafficking

Roberto Domínguez

20 Analytical Conclusions

Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen

End Matter

Contributors

Index