Transnational organized crime, terrorism, and criminalized states in Latin America : an emerging tier-one national security priority /

The emergence of new hybrid (state and nonstate) transnational criminal/terrorist franchises in Latin America operating under broad state protection now pose a tier-one security threat for the United States. Similar hybrid franchise models are developing in other parts of the world, making understan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Farah, Douglas
Corporate Author:	Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2012.
Series:	SSI monograph.
Subjects:	Transnational crime > Latin America. Organized crime > Latin America. Terrorism > Latin America. State crimes > Latin America. State-sponsored terrorism > Latin America. National security > United States.
Online Access:	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo32941

Table of Contents:

Introduction and general framework
The current U.S. government responses to TOC
The nature of the threat in the Americas
Criminalizing states as new regional actors
The Bolivarian and Iranian revolutions : the ties that bind
Conclusions.