Mexico's Security Failure Collapse into Criminal Violence

Name: Mexico's Security Failure Collapse into Criminal Violence
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ISBN: 9780415893282

ISBN-10: 0415893283

ISBN-13: 9780415893282

Edition: 2012

Authors: Monica Serrano, Paul Kenny, Arturo C. Sotomayor

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Because Mexico has failed to achieve internal security, it poses serious threats to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explain the failure there, but also reaches out to assess the impacts of Mexico#xE2;#xAC;"s security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the book, security failure, brings these perspectives together on an intermesticlevel of analysis. What doesn#xE2;#xAC;"t work within the state accounts for its negative impact on other states. It is a view that runs counter to the standard emphasis on the external, trans-national nature of criminal threats to a largely inert state. Security failure expresses the idea that, while…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.06" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Map


Introduction: Security Failure Versus State Failure




The Background



The Mexican State and Organized Crime: an Unending Story




Transition to Dystopia: 1994-2008




Security Failure at Home…



Arbitrariness and Inefficiency in the Mexican Criminal Justice System




Accounting for the Unaccountable: the Police in Mexico




Security Versus Human Rights: the Case of Contemporary Mexico




… and Abroad



Drug Trafficking and United States-Mexico Relations: Causes of Conflict




Mexico's War on Terrorism: Rhetoric and Reality




The Mesoamerican Dilemma: External Insecurity, Internal Vulnerability



Conclusion: Authoritarian Evolution



About the Authors


Index