A War that Can't Be Won : Binational Perspectives on the War on Drugs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967617003321
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: More than forty years have passed since President Richard Nixon described illegal drugs as "public enemy number one" and declared a "War on Drugs." Recently the United Nations Global Commission on Drug Policy declared that "the global war on drugs has failed with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world." Arguably.