Mexico's Security Failure: Collapse into Criminal Violence

ISBN-13: 9780415893282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 244 str.

Monica Serrano

Opis

Mexico has failed to achieve internal security and poses a serious threat to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explain the failure there, but also reaches out to assess the impact of Mexico's security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the book--security failure--brings these perspectives together on an intermestic level of analysis. 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. Mexico's Security Failure is both timely, with Mexico much in the news, but also of lasting value. It explains Mexican insecurity in a full-dimensional manner that hasn't been attempted before. Mexico received much scholarly attention a decade ago with the onset of democratization. Since then, the leading topic has become immigration. However, the security environment compelling many Mexicans to leave has been dramatically understudied. This tightly organized volume begins to correct that gap.

Spis treści

Introduction: Security Failure versus State Failure Paul Kenny and Mónica Serrano  Part 1: The Background  1. The Mexican State and Organized Crime: An Unending Story Paul Kenny and Mónica Serrano  2. Transition to Dystopia: 1994-2008 Paul Kenny and Mónica Serrano  Part 2: Security Failure at Home…  3. Arbitrariness and Inefficiency in the Mexican Criminal Justice System Ana Laura Magaloni  4. Accounting for the Unaccountable: The Police in Mexico Ernesto López-Portillo  5. Security versus Human Rights: The Case of Contemporary Mexico Alejandro Anaya Muñoz  Part 3: … and Abroad  6. Drug Trafficking and US-Mexico Relations: Causes of Conflict Jorge Chabat  7. Mexico’s War on Terrorism: Rhetoric and Reality Athanasios Hristoulas  8. The Mesoamerican Dilemma: External Insecurity, Internal Vulnerability Raúl Benítez and Arturo Sotomayor.  Conclusion: Authoritarian Evolution Paul Kenny and Mónica Serrano