State and Security in Mexico

Brian Bow is Associate Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence, and Ideas in Canada-US Relations (UBC Press), winner of the Donner Prize as the best public policy book published in Canada in 2009, and the co-editor (with Patrick Lennox) of An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada? Challenges and Choices for the Future (University of Toronto Press, 2008). He has also published more than a dozen book chapters and articles on Canadian foreign policy, Canada-US relations, and North American regional integration. Arturo Santa-Cruz is Professor of Pacific Studies and director of the North American Studies program at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He is the author of International Election Monitoring, Sovereignty, and the Western Hemisphere Idea: The Emergence of an International Norm (Routledge, 2005), and editor of What’s in a Name? Globalization, Regionalization, and APEC (University of Guadalajara/Sydney University of Technology, 2004). He has also published extensively on regional politics in the Asia-Pacific, Mexico-US relations, and Mexican foreign policy.

• 1: The State and Security in Mexico: Crisis and Transformation in Regional Perspective, Brian Bow and Arturo Santa-Cruz 2: The Geopolitics of Insecurity in Mexico-United States Relations, Raúl Benítez Manaut 3: Militarization in Mexico and Its Implications, Arturo C. Sotomayor 4: Security and Human Rights in the Framework of Mexico’s "War on Drugs," Alejandro Anaya Muñoz 5: Beyond Mérida?: The Evolution of the US Response to Mexico’s Security Crisis, Brian Bow 6: Security Implications of Drug Legalization in the U.S. and Mexico, Craig A. Deare 7: A New Drug Warrior?: Canada’s Security Policy towards Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Jean Daudelin 8: Canada’s North America Strategy, JenniferJeffs 9: Why North American Regional Security Cooperation Won’t Work, Athanasios Hristoulas 10: Mexico’s Place in Regional and Global Security: Toward a North American Security "Imaginary"?, David G. Haglund 11: Conclusions: Multiple Challenges, Multiple Regions, Multiple Perspectives, Brian Bow and Arturo Santa-Cruz

"Bow and Santa-Cruz have assembled an iconoclastic group to assess the origins, evolution, and effects of the drug-induced security crisis of North America. The book is filled with penetrating analyses and imaginative ideas."—Robert A. Pastor, American University"Bow and Santa-Cruz’s The State and Security in Mexico does a remarkable job of weaving together Mexico’s domestic war on drug trafficking and organized crime—a war that has killed upwards of 50,000 people—and the regional spillover of the violence to the United States and even to Canada. Bow and Santa-Cruz have produced a wonderful volume linking state-society struggles, national security, and regional cooperation (and conflict)."—Joel S. Migdal, University of Washington