State, Violence, and Security in Mexico

Book reviews: Paul Kenny, Ḿonica Serrano with Arturo Sotomayor, eds., Mexico’s Security Failure, Collapse into Criminal Violence (New York: Routledge, 2012). Wil G. Pansters, ed., Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth- Century Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012). George Philip and Susana Berruecos, eds., Mexico’s Struggle for PublicSecurity: Organized Crime and State Responses (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Peter Watt and Roberto Zepeda, Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy (London and New York: Zed, 2012).