Drug War Mexico

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Region: Middle and South America grade: 13 http://www.uni-jena.de/ language: English abstract: To answer the question whether the security situation in Mexico can beclassified as a new war its distinctive features and characteristics will bepresented in theoretical form. On the next level it is argued that organizedcrime violence can be a new war actor himself and cannot be reduced to asupporting role to the economic. Based on the acquired theoreticalknowledge an analysis of empirical findings follows. Here it is shown how theRealities of the Mexican conflict situation make the country into a theater ofwar in the sense of presented concept. Finally the results are summarizedin a conclusion and pointed to the possible implications of the finding of anew war.