The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security - Hardcover
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The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security - Hardcover
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by Tony Payan (Author), Kathleen Staudt (Foreword by)
This book addresses the three central issues that continue to dominate the U.S.-Mexico relationship today: drugs, immigration, and security. Nowhere is this more palpable than at the 2,000-mile border shared by the two countries.
The U.S.-Mexico border remains a hot topic in the news--and a contentious one. This second edition of a popular work brings readers up to date on what is really going on at the U.S.-Mexico border and why. The book offers a detailed, history-based examination of the evolution of current conditions on the border, arguing that they exist due to a steady growth in the security concerns of the United States over almost two centuries. The author shows how the border has gone through four historical stages that, ultimately, have crippled the region, sacrificing its ability to produce prosperity in exchange for greater security. Combining depth and breadth, the book covers the economic relationship between Mexico and the United States, the deployment of technology, the bureaucratic interests that control the border landscape, the democratic deficit, and a detrimental lack of policy coordination. Issues such as drug trafficking and homeland security are considered as well. Demonstrating the internal and contradictory logic of American policy toward the border, the author argues that current conditions could lead to a return of authoritarianism in Mexico and a concurrent rise in anti-American sentiment.Author Biography
Tony Payan, PhD, is director of the Mexico Center at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University in Houston, TX.
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN
Publication Date: October 11, 2016
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