TY - BOOK ID - 10640129 TI - Mexico is not Colombia : alternative historical analogies for responding to the challenge of violent drug-trafficking organizations AU - Paul, Christopher AU - Clarke, Colin P. AU - Serena, Chad C. AU - Rand Corporation. PY - 2014 SN - 0833084410 0833084437 0833084402 9780833084439 9780833084415 9780833084408 9780833084422 0833084429 PB - Santa Monica, California : RAND, DB - UniCat KW - Drug control -- Mexico. KW - Drug traffic -- Mexico. KW - Violence -- Mexico. KW - Violent crimes -- Mexico. KW - Drug traffic KW - Violent crimes KW - Violence KW - Drug control KW - Internal security KW - Insurgency KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Substance Abuse KW - Insurgent attacks KW - Rebellions KW - Security, Internal KW - Crimes, Violent KW - Crimes of violence KW - Civil war KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Revolutions KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Subversive activities KW - Crime UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10640129 AB - Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico's security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case from history, Mexico stands to benefit from historical lessons and efforts that were correlated with improvement in countries facing similar challenges related to violence and corruption. ER -