Monday, November 16, 2015

New Issue: Journal of Conflict Resolution

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (Vol. 59, no. 8, December 2015) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: Drug Violence in Mexico
    • David Shirk & Joel Wallman, Understanding Mexico’s Drug Violence
    • Angelica Duran-Martinez, To Kill and Tell? State Power, Criminal Competition, and Drug Violence
    • Javier Osorio, The Contagion of Drug Violence: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Mexican War on Drugs
    • Viridiana Rios, How Government Coordination Controlled Organized Crime: The Case of Mexico’s Cocaine Markets
    • Gabriela Calderón, Gustavo Robles, Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, & Beatriz Magaloni, The Beheading of Criminal Organizations and the Dynamics of Violence in Mexico
    • Benjamin Lessing, Logics of Violence in Criminal War
    • Stathis N. Kalyvas, How Civil Wars Help Explain Organized Crime—and How They Do Not