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The Americas face many security challenges, including drug trafficking, organized crime, guerrilla movements, terrorism, and environmental challenges. Experts have long debated whether some countries in the region can be classified as failed states. While various states in the Americas have been labeled as failed states, calling a country a failed state is quite controversial and requires a precise definition of what constitutes a failed state. This book instead discusses fragile states in the Americas. Fragile states are weak states that are fertile grounds for organized crime groups and illegal actors as such groups are able to infiltrate the state apparatus through corruption. The goal of this book is to examine fragile states in the region and the major security challenges that these states face. The cause of state fragility is different for various states.
Theoretically, the work will conceptualize the meaning of fragility as it relates to state survival and autonomy. Empirically, the book focuses on contemporary threats to the survival of fragile states in the Americas. The book explains and analyzes the main political, security, and economic challenges of these states. It employs a wide array of cases that delve into the security and economic threats and priorities of states in the Americas.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
Jonathan D. Rosen is a research scientist at Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy.Hanna Samir Kassab, PhD is an assistant professor of political science at East Carolina University. His most recent work is Geographically Small but Not Weak: Comparing the National Security Policies of Israel and Singapore.Marlon Anatol is a Senior Fellow at the Cipriani College of Labour and Cooperative Studies.Hanna Samir Kassab, PhD is an assistant professor of political science at East Carolina University. His most recent work is Geographically Small but Not Weak: Comparing the National Security Policies of Israel and Singapore.Mark Kirton is honorary fellow at the Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies.Jonathan D. Rosen is assistant professor of criminal justice at Holy Family University.
Résumé
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.
