Essays about: "drug cartels"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words drug cartels.
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1. Drug cartels, American corporations and other things that lurk in the dark: A discourse analysis of Mexican foreign policy and the intersection between security and identity
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : Investigating recent events in Mexican security policy from a poststructuralist perspective, this study highlights the role of identity in both security and foreign policies. These developments in International Relations (IR) and security studies have proven that sometimes the traditional perspective on these types of questions is insufficient and that an alternative perspective can be proven useful. READ MORE
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2. The Effect of Natural Resource Shocks on Violence, Crime, and Drug Cartels Presence in Mexico
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : We examine the effect of natural resource shocks on violence by drug cartels at the municipality level in rural Mexico from 2003 to 2017. For this, we use an Instrumental Variable setup by instrumenting our main explanatory variable vegetation density with rainfall. READ MORE
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3. Crime and Development
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Mexico has experienced the dramatic escalation of crime and violence in an organized form since the 1990s, and have also witnessed the highest number of homicides in the last ten years. It has adversely affected the national security, economic growth and social development with an especially detrimental effect on youth in Mexico. READ MORE
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4. System of Violence
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of non-conventional violence on the implementation of disaster risk reduction projects in the Northern Triangle of Central America. The Northern Triangle is facing substantial disaster risk from various hazards. Hence, there is a need for disaster risk reduction in the region. READ MORE
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5. Criminal insurgencies and weak states : Understanding the structural causes of Colombian cartels
University essay from Stockholms universitet/LatinamerikainstitutetAbstract : This paper discusses the socio-economic structural causes that favored the creation of drug cartels in Colombia. This paper argues that structural causes are often neglected from research on cartels and drug trafficking and the aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of how new policies can be achieved that are based on the comprehension of the deep socio-economic conditions which are a part of the very structures of Colombia and their relation to the cartels. READ MORE
