Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Calder?n to Enrique Pe?a Nieto [Hardcover]

Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Calder?n to Enrique Pe?a Nieto examines the major trends in organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. The book provides an exhaustive analysis of drug-related violence in the country. This work highlights the transition from the Felipe Calder?n administration to the Enrique Pe?a Nieto government, focusing on differences and continuities in counternarcotics policies as well as other trends such as violence and drug trafficking.

Jonathan D. Rosen is a research scientist at Florida International Universitys Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy.

Roberto Zepeda is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones sobre Am?rica del Norte at the Universidad Aut?noma de M?xico.

The most comprehensive book on Mexicos contemporary security challenges and possible policy available. A wealth of information simplified into a brilliantly written work of scholarship. A must read. Hanna Samir Kassab, Northern Michigan University

Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence is an excellent synthesis of the evaluation of organized crime related to drug trafficking and the war that President Calder?n declared in 2006. The result was a significant increase in violence. Six years after the change in government Enrique Pe?a Nieto came to power and decided to try to change the strategy without success. The authors argue that within Mexico there are some states, in fact, that are failed states because the governments efforts to dismantle the drug cartels were not successful. The book is an excellent analysis for better understanding 10 years in which Mexico has applied the strategy of the war on drugs. Ra?l Benitez-Manaut, Center for Research on North America (UNAM)

1.Introduction: Historical Context and Influential Factors
2.Felipe Calder?n's War on Drugs: an Examination of the Counternacrotics Strategies
3.The Bloodbath: the Results of the Drug War lÓ%