Latin America's global border system : an introduction / edited by Beatriz Zepeda, Fernando Carrión Mena, Francisco Enríquez Bermeo.

Introduction: The Permanent Construction of Borders in Latin AmericaFernando Carrión Mena and Francisco Enríquez BermeoPart 1: Border Subsystems1.1: Producing Countries1. The Global Border System and Illegal Markets in Peru: Notes for a Research AgendaManuel Dammert Guardia and Viktor Bensús2. Bolivia: The Tensions, Challenges and Prospects of the Border SubsystemJosé Blanes Jiménez1.2: Platform-Type Countries3. Ecuador's Global Border Subsystem: From "Island of Peace" to International Crime PlatformFernando Carrión Mena and Francisco Enríquez Bermeo4. Borders, Crime, and State Responses in ArgentinaGustavo González, Luciana Ghiberto, Waldemar Claus, and Pablo Spekuljak1.3: Strategic Countries5. Guatemala's Border System: A First ApproachBeatriz Zepeda6. Mexico's Cross-Border Subsystem: Cocaine Trafficking and Violence on the Northern BorderCésar Fuentes Flores and Sergio Peña Medina1.4: Multifunctional Countries7. Projecting Borders across the Atlantic: The Case of Italy from a Latin American PerspectiveFederico Alagna8. Brazil and Its Borders: History and Limits of a Sovereign StateLetícia Núñez Almeida, Agnes Félix, Rafael Masson, Nathan Bueno and Jennifer SilvaPart 2: Thematic Axes9. Illegal Markets: New Institutional Architecture and Its Territorial Expression in Latin AmericaFernando Carrión Mena10. Cross-Border Urban Complexes. The Urban Morphology of a Global StructureFernando Carrión Mena and Victor Llugsha11. A Gender Perspective in the Study of Latin American Border SystemsMaría Amelia Viteri and Iréri Ceja

Latin America's Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America. This volume features expert discussions on border issues of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico and Peru, as well as studies on illegal markets, cities, and gender as a first step to understanding the intricacies of the global border system of illegal markets and Latin America's role in it. The book constitutes a valuable source of information on the geographic, economic, demographic, and social characteristics of the most important Latin American border regions, and their relation to global illegal markets, while also offering valuable insights into the ways illegal markets are organized in each country and how they connect across borders to create the global border system. This book will not only be a valuable resource for academics and students of international relations, security studies, border studies and contemporary Latin America, but will also prove relevant to national and international policy-makers devoted to foreign, security and development policies.