Reconceptualizing security in the Americas in the twenty-first century / edited by Bruce M. Bagley, Jonathan D. Rosen, and Hanna S. Kassab.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bagley, Bruce Michael, editor.

Rosen, Jonathan D., editor.

Kassab, Hanna Samir, 1984- editor.

Series:

Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International--Latin America.

Security, International.

Internal security--Latin America.

Internal security.

Human security--Latin America.

Human security.

Insurgency--Latin America.

Insurgency.

Organized crime--Latin America.

Organized crime.

Drug traffic--Latin America.

Drug traffic.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xix, 347 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2015]

Contents:

The hemisphere and declining U.S. hegemony / Hanna Kassab

Reconceptualizing security priorities of the hemisphere / Hanna Kassab

Desecuritization : reestablishing priorities of the hemisphere / Alberto Lozano-Vazquez

In the name of vindice : Latin America's "endemic pattern" of violence : a conceptual analysis / Bradford R. McGuinn

Colombia : prospects for peace in the 21st century : past failures, present challenges and future opportunities / Lilian Yaffe

Mexico : violence in Mexico : in search of an explanation / Jorge Chabat

Organized crime and drug trafficking : trends and supply chains / Juan Carlos Garzón Vergara

Venezuela : trends in organized crime / Joseph M. Humire

Drug trafficking and organized crime in Colombia : major challenges for the Santos administration / Adam Isacson

A "full-cycle-country" : how Argentina's new role within the political economy of illicit drugs is transforming the structure of organized crime / Sebastian Antonio Cutrona

The evolution of Peru's Shining Path and the new security priorities in the hemisphere / Barnett S. Koven and Cynthia McClintock

The rise of China in the Americas / R. Evan Ellis

Development and inequality in the Americas / Ali R. Bustamante

Resource security : energy and environment / Rémi Piet

Health security challenges in the Americas : newly emerging and reemerging infectious diseases / Sherri L. Porcelain

Environmental security of coastal resources in Latin America / Daniel Suman

Migration in the Americas / Roberto Zepeda Martinez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739194850

0739194852

OCLC:

892162573