The article “Challenges and Implications for the Future Joint Force” points out some reasons under which a state can go from ‘failing’ to ‘failed.’ Amongst those reasons we can find feeble economical and political instability, wars between tribal groups, and dysfunctional borders. It also suggests that both Mexico and Pakistan are on their way on becoming failed states given their particular political scenarios and failures in terms of security.
However, looking carefully into this analysis, we realize that assuming that Mexico can become a failed state solely because of its current situation with the drug cartels might be an overstatement. We cannot overlook the fact that narcoterrorism is not a Mexican issue only. It is a threat to hemispherical security and therefore it should be addressed as such.
On the other hand, even though the efforts of the Mexican government are not popular inside the country, they are being regarded externally as sing of Mexico’s commitment towards the international community. Relations between the United States and Mexico came to an unprecedented achievement; the Merida Initiative (March 2007) came to the conclusion that steps needed to be taken in order to ‘bolster Mexican and American domestic enforcement efforts and [to] expand bilateral and regional cooperation that addresses transnational crime’ (Department of State, 2007).
Even taking into consideration different ways of classifying a state as either ‘failing’ or ‘failed,’ we can see that Mexico is a far cry of more than half the African continent, for example (Fund for Peace, 2008). Even though there is some corruption of the state, uneven economic development and violation of human rights, I do not think Mexico is even close to become a failed state mainly because narcoterrorism is not only a Mexican problem.
However, looking carefully into this analysis, we realize that assuming that Mexico can become a failed state solely because of its current situation with the drug cartels might be an overstatement. We cannot overlook the fact that narcoterrorism is not a Mexican issue only. It is a threat to hemispherical security and therefore it should be addressed as such.
On the other hand, even though the efforts of the Mexican government are not popular inside the country, they are being regarded externally as sing of Mexico’s commitment towards the international community. Relations between the United States and Mexico came to an unprecedented achievement; the Merida Initiative (March 2007) came to the conclusion that steps needed to be taken in order to ‘bolster Mexican and American domestic enforcement efforts and [to] expand bilateral and regional cooperation that addresses transnational crime’ (Department of State, 2007).
Even taking into consideration different ways of classifying a state as either ‘failing’ or ‘failed,’ we can see that Mexico is a far cry of more than half the African continent, for example (Fund for Peace, 2008). Even though there is some corruption of the state, uneven economic development and violation of human rights, I do not think Mexico is even close to become a failed state mainly because narcoterrorism is not only a Mexican problem.
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