@article{1449616,
      recid = {1449616},
      author = {Medeiros Passos, Anaís,},
      title = {Democracies at war against drugs : the military mystique  in Brazil and Mexico /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxv, 286 pages) :},
      abstract = {"In an era when violence in Latin America remains  widespread, we still lack a sufficient understanding of  military crime fighting in the region. Anais M. Passos's  well written and richly detailed study helps fill the gap.  This is an excellent study that deserves to be widely read  and debated." --David Pion-Berlin, Distinguished Professor  in the Department of Political Science, University of  California, Riverside, USA This book provides an in-depth  account of military operations against drug gangs and  organizations in two of the biggest countries in Latin  America: Brazil and Mexico. Recent studies on drug wars  have detailed case studies on the war on drugs but do not  focus on the role of the army in such policies.  Publications that do drive attention to the military in  such situations are usually from human rights organizations  or the press and are therefore not scholarly works. There  are therefore no recent academic books dealing with the  role of the military in the fight against drugs in Latin  America. This book aims to fill this gap. It also offers an  empirical and theoretical examination of the issue of the  role of the military (rather than the police) on national  soil--the army being generally devoted to interventions  abroad, and the police, to law enforcement on the national  ground. The book is also the first work to look at  high-level negotiations between military and civilian  elites that define the conditions for the use of force  during military operations. It provides a theoretically  informed understanding of contemporary security politics in  Brazil and Mexico. Anaís Medeiros Passos is Associate  Professor of Political Science in Universidade Federal de  Santa Catarina, Brazil. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1449616},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11327-7},
}