Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century

Herausgeber: Bagley, Bruce M.; Kassab, Hanna Samir; Rosen, Jonathan D.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates the plethora of security concerns of the Americas in the 21st century. It presents the work of a number of prolific scholars and analysts in the continents of America. The book provides one of the only expansive applications of theory to a wide geographical area. It offers new perspectives and urges readers to take theory seriously through use. Within the Americas, we find a number of important issues that compose of this geographic security complex. Most important are the threats that supersede borders: drug trafficking, migration, health, and environment. These threats change our understanding of security and the state and region process of neutralizing or correcting these threats. This volume evaluates these threats within contemporary security discourse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780739194874
• ISBN-10: 0739194879
• Artikelnr.: 45636194

Autorenporträt

Edited by Bruce M. Bagley; Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab - Contributions by Bruce M. Bagley; Jorge Chabat; Sebastían Antonio Cutrona; R. Evan Ellis; Juan Carlos Garzón Vergara; Joseph M. Humire; Adam Isacson; Hanna Samir Kassab; Barnett S. Kove

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Reconceptualizing Security
Chapter 1: The Hemisphere and Declining U.S. Hegemony-Hanna Kassab
Chapter 2: Reconceptualizing Security Priorities of the Hemisphere-Hanna
Kassab
Chapter 3: Desecuritization: Reestablishing Priorities of the
Hemisphere-Alberto Lozano-Vázquez
Section 2: Terrorism, Insurgency and Challenges to the State
Chapter 4: In the Name of Vindice: Latin America's 'Endemic Pattern' of
Violence: A Conceptual Analysis-Bradford R. McGuinn
Chapter 5: Colombia: Prospects for Peace in the 21st Century: Past
Failures, Present Challenges and Future Opportunities-Lilian Yaffe
Chapter 6: Mexico: Violence in Mexico: In Search of an Explanation-Jorge
Chabat
Section 3: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking
Chapter 7: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking: Trends and Supply
Chains-Juan Carlos Garzón Vergara
Chapter 8: Venezuela: Trends in Organized Crime-Joseph M. Humire
Chapter 9: Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Colombia: Major
Challenges for the Santos Administration-Adam Isacson
Chapter 10: A 'Full-Cycle-Country': How Argentina's New role Within the
Political Economy of Illicit Drugs is Transforming the Structure of
Organized Crime-Sebastían Antonio Cutrona
Chapter 11: The Evolution of Peru's Shining Path and the New Security
Priorities in the Hemisphere-Barnett S. Koven and Cynthia McClintock
Section 4: The New Security Agenda
Chapter 12: The Rise of China in the Americas-R. Evan Ellis
Chapter 13: Development and Inequality in the Americas-Ali R. Bustamante
Chapter 14: Resource Security: Energy and Environment-Rémi Piet
Chapter 15 Health Security Challenges in the Americas: Newly Emerging and
Reemerging Infectious Diseases-Sherri L. Porcelain
Chapter 16: Environmental Security of Coastal Resources in Latin
America-Daniel Suman
Chapter 17: Migration in the Americas-Roberto Zepeda Martínez