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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808895203321

Titolo

Cooperation and drug policies in the Americas : trends in the twenty-first centuries / / edited by Roberto Zepeda and Jonathan Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9599-9

0-7391-9598-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century

Disciplina

363.45097

Soggetti

Drug traffic - America

Drug traffic - Prevention - International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Jonathan D. Rosen and Roberto Zepeda -- Competing models : international initiatives and the war on drugs / Ted Galen Carpenter -- Debating reforms : Latin America and the international drug control / Regime Coletta A. Youngers -- Counternarcotic policies and cooperation in Colombia : a shift in policy? / Jonathan D. Rosen and Robert Zepeda -- Cooperation and drug policies : trends in Peru in the twenty-first century / Barnett S. Koven and Cynthia McClintock -- Current trends in caribbean cooperation in the war on drugs : a study of Guyana / Mark Kirton and Marlon Anatol -- Mexico, cooperation, and the drug policies in the twenty-first century / Jonathan D. Rosen and Roberto Zepeda -- Drug trafficking : a symptom of crisis in Honduras / Brian Fonseca and Randy Pestana -- The dawn of post-hegemonic cooperation? : combating transnational narcotics in the insular Caribbean / Lilian Bobea -- The war on drugs in Haiti / Christa L. Remington and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor -- Inventando caminos : cannabis regulation in Uruguay / Astrid Arrarás and Emily D. Bello-Pardo -- Cooperation, security and the drug phenomenon in the inter-American context / Betty Horwitz -- Perspectives of decriminalization and legalization of illicit drugs / Peter Watt and Roberto Zepeda -- Selected bibliography -- About the contributors.



Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>The book examines the role of cooperation and drug policies in the Americas in the twenty-first century, focusing on the major trends and challenges. It argues that one country cannot solve drug trafficking alone-the producing, consuming, and transit countries must work together and cooperate.</span></span>