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This paper examines the discourse of ‘shared responsibility’ that the governments of the United States and Mexico created through the 2008 Mérida Initiative. This discourse fixed the terms of an unruly debate that stood in the way of bilateral cooperation – are Mexico's drug cartels terrorists, and if so is Mexico in danger of failing? Specifically, the discourse does three things. First, it clarifies...
Abstract: To date geography has paid scant attention to private military contracting. Other disciplines have studied the topic, but their work is state‐centric. In this paper I examine private military contracting through a geoeconomic lens and make four arguments. First, the heightened security risks of the contemporary era cannot be explained solely as a result of states’ decision to cede their...
In public health care, needs assessments are a common practice, often done once a year or every couple of years, to determine arenas on which providers should focus their prime attention. The structure of needs assessments varies between political boundaries, but within political boundaries (e.g. state, county, etc.) they are generally standardized so that organizations offering similar types of...
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