A War that Can't Be Won [[electronic resource] ] : Binational Perspectives on the War on Drugs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826391103321
• Autore: Payan Tony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8165-9915-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): StaudtKathleen; KruszewskiZ. Anthony
• Disciplina: 363.450972
• Soggetti: Drug control -- Mexico; Drug control -- United States; Drug traffic -- Mexican-American Border Region; Drug control - United States; Drug control - Mexico; Drug traffic - Mexican-American Border Region; Social Welfare & Social Work; Social Sciences; Substance Abuse
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Many Labyrinths of Illegal Drug Policy: Framing the Issues - Tony Payan; Part I. Framing the Issues; 1. Cartels, Corruption, Carnage, and Cooperation - William C. Martin; 2. President Felipe Calderón's Strategy to Combat Organized Crime - Marcos Pablo Moloeznik; Part II. Current Strategies and Casualties; 3. Drug Wars, Social Networks, and the Right to Information: Informal Media as Freedom of the Press in Northern Mexico - Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and José Nava; 4. Political Protection and the Origins of the Gulf Cartel - Carlos Antonio Flores Pérez5. Organized Crime as the Highest Threat to Mexican National Security and Democracy - Raúl Benítez Manaut; 6. 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; 7. Caught in the Middle: ; Undocumented Migrants' Experiences with Drug Violence - Jeremy Slack and Scott Whiteford; Part III. Ending the War: Alternative Strategies; 8. Challenging Foreign Policy from the Border: The Forty-Year War on Drugs - Kathleen Staudt and Beto O 'Rourke9. The Role of Citizens and Civil Society in Mexico's Security Crisis - Daniel M. Sabet; 10. Regulating Drugs as a Crime: A Challenge for the Social Sciences - Israel Alvarado Martínez and Germán Guillén López; 11. The U.S. Causes but Cannot (or Will Not) Solve Mexico's Drug Problems - Jonathan P. Caulkins and Eric L. Sevigny; Conclusion: A War That Can't Be Won? - Tony Payan and Kathleen Staudt; Contributors; Index