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Title Reconceptualizing security in the Americas in the twenty-first century / edited by Bruce M. Bagley, Jonathan D. Rosen, and Hanna S. Kassab
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 347 pages)
Series Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century
Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century.
Contents The hemisphere and declining U.S. hegemony / Hanna Kassab -- Reconceptualizing security priorities of the hemisphere / Hanna Kassab -- Desecuritization : reestablishing priorities of the hemisphere / Alberto Lozano-Vazquez -- In the name of vindice : Latin America's "endemic pattern" of violence : a conceptual analysis / Bradford R. McGuinn -- Colombia : prospects for peace in the 21st century : past failures, present challenges and future opportunities / Lilian Yaffe -- Mexico : violence in Mexico : in search of an explanation / Jorge Chabat -- Organized crime and drug trafficking : trends and supply chains / Juan Carlos Garzón Vergara -- Venezuela : trends in organized crime / Joseph M. Humire -- Drug trafficking and organized crime in Colombia : major challenges for the Santos administration / Adam Isacson -- A "full-cycle-country" : how Argentina's new role within the political economy of illicit drugs is transforming the structure of organized crime / Sebastian Antonio Cutrona -- The evolution of Peru's Shining Path and the new security priorities in the hemisphere / Barnett S. Koven and Cynthia McClintock -- The rise of China in the Americas / R. Evan Ellis -- Development and inequality in the Americas / Ali R. Bustamante -- Resource security : energy and environment / Rémi Piet -- Health security challenges in the Americas : newly emerging and reemerging infectious diseases / Sherri L. Porcelain -- Environmental security of coastal resources in Latin America / Daniel Suman -- Migration in the Americas / Roberto Zepeda Martinez
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Security, International -- Latin America
Internal security -- Latin America
Human security -- Latin America
Insurgency -- Latin America
Organized crime -- Latin America
Drug traffic -- Latin America
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Drug traffic
Human security
Insurgency
Internal security
Organized crime
Security, International
Innere Sicherheit
Politische Kriminalität
Organisiertes Verbrechen
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Bagley, Bruce Michael, editor
Rosen, Jonathan D., editor
Kassab, Hanna Samir, 1984- editor.
LC no. 2020738610
ISBN 9780739194867
0739194860