International cooperation in the war on drugs: Mexico and the United States

IF 2 2区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Policing & Society Pub Date : 1999-07-01 DOI:10.1080/10439463.1999.9964814

Martha L. Cottam, Otwin Marenin

引用次数: 10

Abstract

Both Mexico and the United States, which share a long and porous border, have declared international narcotics trafficking a national security problem. Nevertheless, operational cooperation in dealing with this common problem has been lacking. We argue that difficulties in trans‐national cooperation are caused, in the main, by conflicting evaluations of the causes and impacts of the drug problem, competing nationalisms in the U.S. and Mexico, and perceptual imagery.

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毒品战争中的国际合作:墨西哥和美国

墨西哥和美国有着漫长而疏漏的边境线，两国都宣布国际毒品贩运是国家安全问题。然而，在处理这一共同问题方面缺乏业务合作。我们认为，跨国合作的困难主要是由于对毒品问题的原因和影响的相互矛盾的评估、美国和墨西哥相互竞争的民族主义以及感知意象造成的。

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Policing & Society CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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5.40

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7.40%

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