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Research Frontiers in Drug Trafficking Organizations and State Capacity

Investigates the organizational structures, violence dynamics, and institutional relationships between criminal syndicates and weakened state apparatuses in the region.

Institutional Capture and Revenue Extraction in Weak States

Territorial Control Beyond Violence: Criminal Governance Models

Transnational Supply Chain Integration and Border Permeability

Corruption Networks as State Fragmentation Mechanisms

Criminal Taxation and Parallel Fiscal Systems

Cartel Violence as Political Competition Infrastructure

Money Laundering and Financial System Capacity Erosion

Inter-cartel Competition and State Legitimacy Collapse

Drug Routes as Sovereignty Challenges in Border Regions

Criminal Organizations as Alternative State Institutions

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