Screen LibraryMaking peace in drug wars : crackdowns and cartels in Latin America /
Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. In Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, leaders cracked down on cartels in hopes of restoring the rule of law and the state...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. In Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, leaders cracked down on cartels in hopes of restoring the rule of law and the state's monopoly on force. Instead, cartels fought back - with bullets and bribes - driving spirals of violence and corruption that make mockeries of leaders' state-building aims. Fortunately, some policy reforms quickly curtailed cartel-state conflict, but they proved tragically difficult to sustain. Why do cartels fight states, if not to topple or secede from them? Why do some state crackdowns trigger and exacerbate cartel-state conflict, while others curb it? This study argues that brute-force repression generates incentives for cartels to fight back, while policies that condition repression on cartel violence can effectively deter cartel-state conflict. The politics of drug war, however, make conditional policies all too fragile. -- |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-320) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781316648964 1316648966 9781107199637 1107199638 |
| Index Number: | HV5840 |
| CLC: | D773.088 |
| Call Number: | D773.088/L639 |
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A theory of cartel-state conflict. What is cartel-state conflict? -- Logics of violence in cartel-state conflict -- Modeling violent corruption and lobbying -- Case studies. Colombia : conditionality to contain a killer -- Rio de Janeiro : conditionality, one Favela at a time -- Mexico : conditionality abandoned -- Conditional repression as outcome. The challenge of implementing conditionality -- Explaining reform efforts' success : key factors and alternative hypotheses -- The challenge of sustaining conditionality -- |