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Based on an analysis of the globalization process, its characteristics, its effects on the economy and on politics, as well as the challenges it presupposes, the author reflects on and makes proposals for the education diplomats need in Latin America in the post-Cold War era. According to the author, diplomatic academies have to include courses on the characteristics of a globalized economy in their study plans, but without losing sight of political science and international relations studies, among other subjects that create the theoretical base for an understanding of the globalization process. In this respect, the author emphasizes the subject of public international law. (Rev Mex Polit Exter/DÜI)

The drug policies of wealthy consuming countries emphasize criminalization, interdiction, and eradication. Such extreme responses to social challenges risk unintended, costly consequences. The evidence presented in this volume is that these consequences are high in the case of current drug policies, particularly for poor transit and producer countries. These costs include the deaths of thousands in the conflict between drug cartels and security forces, political instability, and the infiltration of criminal elements into governments, on the one hand; and increased narcotics use in countries that would not otherwise have been targeted by drug suppliers. Despite such costs, extreme policies could be worthwhile if their benefits were significantly higher than those of more moderate, less costly policies. The authors review the evidence on the benefits of current policies and find that they are clouded in uncertainty: eradication appears to have no permanent effect on supply; the evidence on criminalization does not exclude either the possibility that its effects on drug consumption are low, or that they are high. Uncertainty over benefits and the high costs of current policies relative to alternatives justifies greater emphasis on lower cost policies and more conscientious and better-funded efforts to assess the benefits of all policies.

Economic consequences of terrorism in developed and developing countries : an overview / Todd Sandler and Walter Enders -- The costs of responding to the terrorist threats : the U.S. case / Gregory F. Treverton [and others] -- From (no) butter to guns? : understanding the economic role in transnational terrorism / S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess -- The Lexus and the olive branch : globalization, democratization, and terrorism / S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess -- Kto kogo? : a cross-country study of the origins and targets of terrorism / Alan B. Krueger and David D. Laitin -- Terrorism and civil war / Nicholas Sambanis -- The political, economic, and organizational sources of terrorism / David D. Laitin and Jacob Shapiro -- Economics and terrorism : what we know, what we should know, and the data we need / Fernanda Llussá and José Tavares.