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Peru Claims Shining Path ‘Defeated’
The capture of Peruvian terrorists, brought to you by Gatorade From the BBC: [Peruvian President] Humala said the capture of Shining Path leader Freddy Arenas this week signalled the end of the Maoist...
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Mexico’s President-Elect Aims to Reduce Violence
Image credit: AP/Christian Palma PRI candidate Enrique Pena Nieto is the apparent winner of Mexico’s presidential election held over the weekend. The PRI has been accused of corruption during its...
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Do Targeted Killings Work?
Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations rounds up answers from Daniel Byman (sometimes), Joshua Foust (maybe), Sarah Holewinski (probably not), Patrick Johnston (yes, if targeted selectively),...
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DTO Leadership Targeting Increased Violence, Multiplied Cartels
Now that President Felipe Calderon is out of office, the new administration is attributing the rise in violence to his hardline policies: With the capture of dozens of drug capos, an achievement...
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Leadership Targeting and Perverse Incentives
Enrique Pena Nieto with supporters. Photograph: Daniel Aguilar/Getty Images If targeting of Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) leaders in Mexico has contributed to high levels of violence, as I argue...
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Kurds and Statelessness
Kurdish peshmerga–literally “those who face death”–standing guard at Shenarwe Mountain Last week one of my academic heroes, James C. Scott, came to Duke to give two talks. The first was a lunchtime...
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Organized Crime Roundup
I have been arguing for years that organized crime has an inherently political component. Certainly I am not alone, and researchers far superior to me have made the same point–for example, Charles...
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Mexico Update Following Joaquin Guzmán’s Capture
As you probably know by now, the Sinaloa cartel’s leader Joaquin Guzmán was captured in Mexico last Saturday. How will violence in Mexico shift following Guzman’s removal? (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty...
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“The Impact of Leadership Removal on Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations”
That’s the title of a new article, now online at the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Thanks to fellow grad students Cassy Dorff and Shahryar Minhas for their feedback. Thanks also to mentors at...
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Now in Print: “The Impact of Leadership Removal on Mexican Drug Trafficking...
My Journal of Quantitative Criminology article “The Impact of Leadership Removal on Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations” is now in print. For the abstract and other discussions of the research see...
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