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Drugs, Gangs, and Violence

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab

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Drugs, Gangs, and Violence

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab

This book examines the nature of transnational organized crime and gangs, and how these diverse organizations contribute to violence, especially in so-called fragile states across Central and Latin America. While the nature of organized crime and violence differs depending on the context, the authors explain how and why states plagued by weak institutions tend to foster criminal organizations and violence, and why counter-crime initiatives often result in higher levels of violence. By examining the consequences of tough on crime policies (e.g., mano dura) in places like Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia, the volume offers a new perspective on the link between state fragility, crime, and violence.

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Springer

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3319944517

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9783319944517

Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab

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Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab

In this succinct text, Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab explore the linkage between weak institutions and government policies designed to combat drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine criminal violence and publicly available survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to conduct regression analysis, individual case studies on Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua highlight the major challenges that governments face and how they have responded to various security issues. Rosen and Kassab later turn their attention to the role of external criminal actors in the region and offer policy recommendations and lessons learned. Questions explored include: What are the major trends in organized crime in this country? How has organized crime evolved over time? Who are the major criminal actors? How has state fragility contributed to organized crime and violence (and vice versa)? What has been the government’s response to drug trafficking and organized crime? Have such policies contributed to violence? Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America is suitable to both undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice, international relations, political science, comparative politics, international political economy, organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence.

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153

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Routledge

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1000164330

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9781000164336

U.S.–Cuba Relations

Charting a New Path

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab

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U.S.–Cuba Relations

Charting a New Path

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab

This book examines the history of United States foreign policy toward Cuba, focusing on critical junctures and recent strategic shifts. Restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, which were severed officially in January 1961, was a huge shift in U.S. foreign policy. Relations between Cuba and the United States were tumultuous throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and almost escalated into full blown nuclear war in October1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. The restoration of diplomatic relations marks a fundamental departure as the two countries chart a new course into the twenty-first century. This book traces over seven hundred years of history, setting the context to base an argument in favor of rapprochement. It illustrates the importance of the Cuba deal to break with the past and delegitimize anti-Americanism in the world.

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185

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Lexington Books

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149853774X

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9781498537742

Illicit Markets, Organized Crime, and Global Security

By: Hanna Samir Kassab,Jonathan D. Rosen

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Illicit Markets, Organized Crime, and Global Security

By: Hanna Samir Kassab,Jonathan D. Rosen

This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments. Organized criminal networks increased in strength after the enforcement of prohibition, eventually challenging the authority of the state and its institutions through corruption and violence. Criminal networks now organize under cyber-infrastructure, what we call the Deep or Dark Web. The authors analyze how illicit markets come together, issues of destabilization and international security, the effect of legitimate enterprises crowded out of developing countries, and ultimately, illicit markets' cost to human life.

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203

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Springer

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3319906356

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9783319906355

Corruption, Institutions, and Fragile States

By: Hanna Samir Kassab,Jonathan D. Rosen

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Corruption, Institutions, and Fragile States

By: Hanna Samir Kassab,Jonathan D. Rosen

This book examines the relationship between state fragility and corruption. It analyzes a variety of regions throughout the world, including Latin America, Central Asia and the Middle East, Africa, Central America and Mexico, South America, and Russia. States that are plagued by high levels of state fragility and corruption facilitate illicit activities and other criminal enterprises.

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209

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Springer

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3030043126

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9783030043124

Prioritization Theory and Defensive Foreign Policy

Systemic Vulnerabilities in International Politics

By: Hanna Samir Kassab

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Prioritization Theory and Defensive Foreign Policy

Systemic Vulnerabilities in International Politics

By: Hanna Samir Kassab

This book studies systemic vulnerabilities and their impact on states and individual survival. The author theorizes that the structure of the international system is a product of the distribution of capabilities and vulnerabilities across states. States function or behave in terms of these systemic threats. The author examines a number of specific case-studies focusing on military, economic, environmental, political and cyber vulnerabilities, and how different states are impacted by them. Arguing that current attempts to securitize these vulnerabilities through defensive foreign policies are largely failing, the books makes the case for prioritizing economic development and human security.

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263

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Springer

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3319480189

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9783319480183

Power Vacuums and Global Politics

Areas of State and Non-state Competition in Multipolarity

By: Hanna Samir Kassab

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Power Vacuums and Global Politics

Areas of State and Non-state Competition in Multipolarity

By: Hanna Samir Kassab

In this book, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework that explains the formulation of power vacuums and examines their impact on the international system. A power vacuum is the fundamental absence of legitimate state authority over a geographic territory, and it is a space free of governance. With no state authority governing a geographical region, opportunistic states and organized criminal and terrorist networks may attempt to control that space. Using a variety of historical examples and centering his analysis on ungoverned spaces rather than great powers, Kassab uncovers neglected areas of great power competition. Part 1 discusses state actors: specifically, the strategic space of the Arctic, the Middle East and Africa, and Afghanistan and Central Asia. Part 2 examines non-state actors, such as terrorist networks and organized criminal networks, and the formulation of paramilitaries. Power Vacuums and Global Politics is the perfect volume for both undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations, security studies, political science, comparative politics, international political economy, and war and peace.

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142

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Taylor & Francis

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1000901157

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9781000901153

Terrorist Recruitment and the International System

By: Hanna Samir Kassab

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Terrorist Recruitment and the International System

By: Hanna Samir Kassab

Recruitment is key to a terrorist network’s survival strategy. Steady enrollment is needed, not just to fight against perceived injustice, but to keep the network’s grand strategy alive. When a weak state fails to protect its territory and implement the rule of law because of corruption or incapacity, it results in the creation of power vacuums. Terrorist networks thrive within power vacuums and opportunistically fill the space where a weak state could not maintain control. This destabilizes the international system and forces great powers to intervene. Historically, interventions are ineffective in combatting terrorism and have actually increased recruitment through regional political destabilization. Further, interventions have drained the capabilities of states, allowing for shifts in the distribution of power, thus changing the international order. Understanding recruitment mechanisms is key to developing strategies to combat recruitment in the short and long term.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793615152

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9781793615152

Book's by Hanna S. Kassab

Drugs, Gangs, and Violence

Drugs, Gangs, and Violence

Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America

Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America

U.S.–Cuba Relations

U.S.–Cuba Relations

Illicit Markets, Organized Crime, and Global Security

Illicit Markets, Organized Crime, and Global Security

Corruption, Institutions, and Fragile States

Corruption, Institutions, and Fragile States

Prioritization Theory and Defensive Foreign Policy

Prioritization Theory and Defensive Foreign Policy

Power Vacuums and Global Politics

Power Vacuums and Global Politics

Terrorist Recruitment and the International System

Terrorist Recruitment and the International System

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