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This book examines fragile states in the Americas and analyzes the security challenges that these states face. Chapters present case studies of fragile states, focusing on organized crime, drug trafficking, and other major security-related issues.

List of contents

1. Mexico's Security Upheaval
2. An Ominous Future: Narco-Violence in Mexico from 2006-2016
3. Will the Rebellion for the Rule of Law Prevail in Guatemala?
4. The Cost of Failed Leadership: Corruption and Conflict in Honduras
5. Where Murder is Easy: The Fragile State of El Salvador's Liberalism
6. Progress and Backsliding: State Fragilities and Colombia's Post-Conflict Transition
7. The Peruvian Perfect Storm: State Fragility, Corruption and Organized Crime
8. Triple Threat: Political, Economic, and Security Fragility in Venezuela
9. The Ungovernable State: Bolivia in the Age of Morales
10. Weak States and Security Challenges: The Case of Guyana
11. Brazil: An Intermediate State with a Fragile Democratic Regime12. Haiti: Fragile State or Failed Nation?
13. An Assessment of Trinidad and Tobago as a Fragile State
14. The Obama Administration's Foreign Policy Challenges in the Americas
15. United States Defense Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
16. Latin America and Lebanon: A Comparative Study of Fragility

About the author

Jonathan D. Rosen is a research scientist at Florida International University's Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy.

Hanna S. Kassab is visiting assistant professor at Northern Michigan University.

Summary

This book examines fragile states in the Americas and analyzes the security challenges that these states face. Chapters present case studies of fragile states, focusing on organized crime, drug trafficking, and other major security-related issues.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hanna S Kassab (Editor), Hanna S. Kassab (Editor), Hanna Samir Kassab (Editor), Kassab Hanna Samir (Editor), Jonathan D Rosen (Editor), Jonathan D. Rosen (Editor), Rosen Jonathan D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781498543569
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4356-9
• Series: Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century; Security in the Americas in th; Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century; Security in the Americas in th
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Regional Studies, Comparative Politics, Regional / International studies, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America