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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1. Verfasser:	Lessing, Benjamin (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Schlagworte:	Drug control > Latin America Drug traffic > Latin America Insurgency > Latin America Violence > Latin America Bekämpfung Drogenpolitik Drogenkriminalität Drogenhandel Lateinamerika
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Nov 2017)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xxi, 326 pages)
ISBN:	9781108185837
DOI:	10.1017/9781108185837