Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7506-6763
Date of Award
8-10-2021
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Louis-Alexandre Berg
Second Advisor
Jennifer McCoy
Third Advisor
Ryan Edward Carlin
Abstract
This paper focuses on how governments respond to cartel violence in Colombia and Mexico with either cooperation or retaliation. I tested three explanations in Medellin from 1984 to 1993 and Culiacan from 2000 to 2011. While the theory suggests that state repression causes cartel violence or, the other way around, based on the empirical analysis, I find that the theories that focus only on cartel violence are insufficient because there is an interrelationship between international assistance, type of cartel violence, and the type of cartel territorial control with how governments respond to cartel violence. Therefore, I conclude that the type of cartel violence and the type of cartel territorial control have the most potent effect on how governments respond to cartel violence than international assistance.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/23243516
Recommended Citation
Quintero, Ilenia E., "Governments Response to Drug Cartel?s Violence: The Case of Colombia and Mexico." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2021.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/23243516
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