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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.
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.
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
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.
States is not the least interested in turning to violence to
liquidate Venezuela's 'revolution.' Nobody is going to invade
Venezuela. What is generally ignored is why Obama has taken this
contradictory step that only serves to give Maduro a pretext for
nationalism, increase repression and stir the Latin American
hornet's nest. And yet, there are good reasons behind the move.
Venezuela is indeed a risk to the security of the United States,
not because it violated the democrats' human rights – that was the
excuse – but because of three activities that are codified in the
doctrinary definition that indicates where the danger to U.S.
society begins or intensifies. Whoever wants to know the vision
that prevails in Washington on this issue should read the book
Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the 21st Century,
with special attention to the chapter titles Venezuela: Trends in
Organized Crime.
*The Miami Herald*
While Latin America currently does not present a threat to global
security, a number of important security issues within the Americas
result in pervasive threats to people’s lives…. This informative
volume, which brings together contributions from all over the
Americas, picks up on these diagnoses. It is a valuable addition to
an increasing literature on nontraditional security issues in the
Americas, which so far has concentrated mainly on citizen security,
violence, and illicit activities like drug trafficking.
*International Studies Review*
One is hard-pressed to find comprehensive studies on what is likely
the number one challenge facing the region and U.S. policy:
security. The editors of this book have filled an important
academic and policy gap, providing in-depth analysis of the
region's security agenda, with special focus on citizen security,
violence and non-traditional issues such as energy, health, and
migration. The depth and breadth of this issue and country-focused
book is sure to be of great interest to scholars and policy-makers
alike.
*Frank O. Mora, Florida International University*
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