Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century

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

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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

• Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
• 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

Bruce M. Bagley is professor in the Department of International Studies at the University of Miami. Hanna Kassab is lecturer at the University of Miami. Jonathan D. Rosen is research professor at the Institute of International Studies at the Universidad del Mar, Mexico.

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