TY - BOOK AU - Rosen,Jonathan D. AU - Kassab,Hanna Samir AU - Anatol,Marlon AU - Bello-Pardo,Emily D. AU - Beltrán,Adriana AU - Brienen,Marten AU - Carpenter,Ted Galen AU - Dammert,Lucía AU - Garcia-Zamor,Jean-Claude AU - Golnick,Eric TI - Fragile States in the Americas T2 - Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century Series SN - 9781498543576 AV - JC330.2.F7295 2017 U1 - 320.973 PY - 2016/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic KW - Political stability - America KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Fragile States in the Americas -- Part I Mexico and Central America -- Chapter 1 Mexico's Security Upheaval -- Chapter 2 An Ominous Future -- Chapter 3 Will the Rebellion for the Rule of Law Prevail in Guatemala? -- Chapter 4 The Cost of Failed Leadership -- Chapter 5 Where Murder Is Easy -- Part II South America -- Chapter 6 Progress and Backsliding -- Chapter 7 The Peruvian Perfect Storm -- Chapter 8 Triple Threat -- Chapter 9 The Ungovernable State -- Chapter 10 Weak States and Security Challenges -- Chapter 11 Brazil -- Part III Caribbean -- Chapter 12Haiti -- Chapter 13 An Assessment of Trinidad and Tobago as a Fragile State -- Part IV U.S. Policy and a Comparat ive Study -- Chapter 14 The Obama Administration's Foreign Policy Challenges in the Americas1 -- Chapter 15 United States Defense Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean1 -- Chapter 16 Latin America and Lebanon -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors N2 - This book examines fragile states in the Americas and analyzes the security challenges that these states face. Chapters present case studies of fragile states, focusing on organized crime, drug trafficking, and other major security-related issues UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4751325 ER -