Events like narcoterrorism in Colombia in the 1980s, or beheadings in Mexico, grab headlines easily. Yet drug traffickers also hide or minimize violence, or engage in quiet wars. The Politics of Drug Violence explains variation in drug violence looking at the interactions between state power, criminal competition, and the forms of coercion criminals employ.
Events like narcoterrorism in Colombia in the 1980s, or beheadings in Mexico, grab headlines easily. Yet drug traffickers also hide or minimize violence, or engage in quiet wars. The Politics of Drug Violence explains variation in drug violence looking at the interactions between state power, criminal competition, and the forms of coercion criminals employ.
Angelica Duran-Martinez is assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Brown University, a B.A. in Political Science from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University. Her research focuses on organized crime, violence, and the state in Latin America and has received funding from the United States Institute of Peace, the Social Science Research Council, and the Open Society Foundation through the Drugs, Security, and Democracy fellowship. She has published articles in journals like the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Comparative Political Studies, and Crime, Law and Social Change.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures, Tables, and Maps Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. States, Trafficking, and Violence 2. Conceptualizing Drug Violence 3. Democratization and State Capacity to Control Violence 4. Medellín: From Extreme Wars to Unstable Pacification 5. Cali and Culiacán: Hidden Violence and State-Criminal Collusion 6. Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana: Beyond a Border Tale of Violence Conclusion Appendix: Coding Protocol for Drug-Violence Events Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
List of Figures, Tables, and Maps Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. States, Trafficking, and Violence 2. Conceptualizing Drug Violence 3. Democratization and State Capacity to Control Violence 4. Medellín: From Extreme Wars to Unstable Pacification 5. Cali and Culiacán: Hidden Violence and State-Criminal Collusion 6. Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana: Beyond a Border Tale of Violence Conclusion Appendix: Coding Protocol for Drug-Violence Events Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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