The Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations An Assessment of Mexican Security Based on Existing RAND Research on Urban Unrest, Insurgency, and Defense-Sector Reform

• Main Author: Paul, Christopher (auth)
• Other Authors: Schaefer, Agnes Gereben (auth), Clarke, Colin P. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2011
• Subjects: Database design & theory; Warfare & defence; Political Science; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise, the results of which offer an assessment of the contemporary security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform. Assessment scorecards...