The Politics of Drug Violence by Angelica Duran-Martinez
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.
The book..serve[s] as a solid foundation for scholars to build on and, with any hope, encourage a set of public policies capable of securing a more just and peaceful future for Latin America. * Juan Albarracín, Universidad Icesi, Latin American Research Review *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190695965 |
| ISBN 10 | 019069596X |
| Title | The Politics of Drug Violence |
| Author | Angelica Duran-Martinez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2018-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the American Political Science Associations Peter Katzenstein's prize for the best first book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy Winner of the IASOC Book Prize. |
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