2. ThisEssay is meant to critically assess the
implications of illicit drug trade, as a
phenomena of transnational crime, to
democracy in Latin America
3. The reemergence of democratic statehood ,
after the cold war, in Latin America is
plagued by spiraling increase of illicit drug
trade, a transnational crime, which utilizes
modern means of communication and other
advantages of the current shrinking
globalizing world. The tremendous wealth
generated through these practices has posed
challenges to the legal economic and
political institutions.
4. Influence/infiltration of rich crime
syndicates in national politics and its
democratic institutions
Transnational crime is an issue in world
politics
Regional security and stability is an import
factor in the geopolitical agenda of the
region.
5. Relation between states and states
institutions and organized crime
Neither Hobbesian realism(and its derivative
neo-realism) nor the liberal institutionalism
or neo-liberalism is readily and comfortably
accommodate transnational criminal
organizations.
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