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Preface: On the Study of Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges to Democracy
Bruce M. Bagley
Part I. U.S. Drug Policies at Home and Abroad
Chapter 1. Coca, Cocaine, and Consumption: Trends and Antitrends
J. Bryan Page
Chapter 2. Illegal Drugs as a National Security Threat: Securitization of Drugs in the U.S. Official Discourse
Yulia Vorobyeva
Chapter 3. The War on Drugs and the Role of SOUTHCOM
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
Chapter 4. Mission Creep: The U.S. Military’s Counterdrug Role in the Americas
Adam Isacson
Chapter 5. Security Challenges at the U.S.-Mexican Border: Understanding the Security Threats to State and Local Governments
Rocío A. Rivera Barradas
Chapter 6. Drug-Control Policies in the United States: Patterns, Prevalence, and Problems of Drug Use in the United States
Bruce M. Bagley
Part II. Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime: Country and Regional Analyses
Chapter 7. Colombia and Its Wars against Drug Trafficking, 1970–2010
Elvira María Restrepo
Chapter 8. Illicit Drugs in the Colombia-U.S. Relationship: Review and Prospects
Arlene B. Tickner and Carolina Cepeda
Chapter 9. Escalating Heroin Consumption and the Spread of HIV in Colombia: An Emerging Public Health Threat
Clyde McCoy, Daniel H. Ciccarone, Zelde Espinel Ben-Amy, Jeanene McCoy Bengoa, Oscar Bernal, Duane C. McBride, and James M. Shultz
Chapter 10. Bolivian Drug Policy under the Morales Administration
Marten W. Brienen
Chapter 11. The Vicious Cycle: The Resurgence of Drug Production and Drug Trafficking in Peru
Marten W. Brienen and Jonathan D. Rosen
Chapter 12. In Search of the Mérida Initiative: From Antecedents to Practical Results
Alberto Lozano-Vázquez and Jorge Rebolledo Flores
Chapter 13. Police Reform in Mexico: A Never-Ending Story
Sigrid Arzt
Chapter 14. Democracy, Security, and Organized Crime in Central America
Francisco Rojas Aravena
Chapter 15. Seeking Out the State: Organized Crime, Violence, and State‑tropism in the Caribbean
Lilian Bobea
Chapter 16. The Power of Organized Crime in Brazil: From Public and Social Challenges to the Effectiveness of Reforms
Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich
Chapter 17. Under (Loose) Control: Drug Trafficking in Argentina in Times of Paradigm Change
Khatchik DerGhougassian and Glen Evans
Part III. Regional and International Drug-Control Policies
Chapter 18. The Role of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission: Confronting the Problem of Illegal Drugs in the Americas
Betty Horwitz
Chapter 19. The Strategies of the European Union against Drug Trafficking
Roberto Domínguez
Chapter 20. Analytical Conclusions: The Search for Alternative Drug Policies in the Americas
Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen
List of Contributors
Index
