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Lexington Books Cooperation and Drug Policies in the Americas Trends in the Twenty-First Century 2014 Edition by Roberto Zepeda, Jonathan D. Rosen, Marlon Anatol
This volume examines drug policies and the role of cooperation in the Americas. Many current and former politicians have discussed the failures of the war on drugs and the need for alternative approaches. Uruguay as well as Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana. The Organization of American states produced a report in 2013 which discussed alternative policy options to the drug war. This work examines the nature of cooperation and drug policies in the twenty-first century in the Americas, highlighting the major challenges and obstacles. The argument is that one country cannot solve drug trafficking as it is a transnational problem. Therefore, the producing, consuming, and transit countries must work together and cooperate. Table of contents :- Introduction: Jonathan D. Rosen and Roberto Zepeda Chapter 1: Competing Models: International Initiatives and the War on Drugs Ted Galen Carpenter Chapter 2: Debating Reforms: Latin America and the International Drug Control Regime Coletta A. YoungersChapter 3: Counternarcotic Policies and Cooperation in Colombia: A Shift in Policy?Jonathan D. Rosen and Robert ZepedaChapter 4: Cooperation and Drug Policies: Trends in Peru in the Twenty-First CenturyBarnett S.- Koven and Cynthia McClintockChapter 5: Current Trends in Caribbean Cooperation in the War on Drugs: A Study of Guyana Mark Kirton and Marlon AnatolChapter 6: Mexico, Cooperation, and the Drug Policies in the Twenty-First Century Jonathan D. Rosen and Roberto ZepedaChapter 7: Drug Trafficking: A Symptom of Crisis in HondurasBrian Fonseca and Randy PestanaChapter 8: The Dawn of Post-Hegemonic Cooperation? Combating Transnational Narcotics in the Insular CaribbeanLilean BobeaChapter 9: The War on Drugs in HaitiChrista Remmington and Jean-Claude Garcia-ZamorChapter 10: Inventando Caminos: Cannabis regulation in Uruguay Astrid Arraras and Emily D. Bello-PardoCh 11: Cooperation, Security and the Drug phenomenon in the Inter-American ContextBetty Horwitz Ch 12: Perspectives of Decriminalization and Legalization of Illicit DrugsPeter Watt and Roberto Zepeda