The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to generate the necessary capacity to address important security and institutional challenges; th

In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy

This volume examines inter-American security issues in the United States and Latin America, and explores the impact of global changes on the Western Hemisphere.

Offers timely discussion by attorneys, government officials, policy analysts, and academics from the United States and Latin America of the responses of the sta

The contributors to this book offer a collective assessment of some of the causes for the alarming rise in criminal activity in Latin America as new democratic