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This Headline Series deals with the hot-button issue of the armed conflict taking place between Mexico's rival drug cartels and the Mexican government forces who are trying to put an end to the wildly profitably supply route for cocaine and other illegal drugs making their way into the United States. It examines past and current Mexican efforts in tackling both the demand and supply sides of the problem and considers possible approaches to halting the escalating killings of innocent victims and other heinous acts taking place daily in the “war zone.”

Mexico's Struggle with ‘Drugs and Thugs' has been mentioned frequently in the news, including in USA Today, the Globe and Mail (Toronto), The News (Mexico), the Christian Science Monitor, the Dallas Morning News and has recently been reviewed in the Small Wars Journal (March 2009) and requested by the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Reviews/Commentary

“Grayson's contribution to understanding Mexico's drug wars is significant. [He] deftly describes the intrinsic political dimensions of this conflict and goes beyond current reporting to place the conflict in context.”

“Public debate is hampered by a lack of detailed understanding of the conflict and its players. ‘Mexico's Struggle with “Drugs and Thugs,”' helps fill the knowledge void…. [It] provides a valuable foundation for current policy discussions…[and] is essential reading for police, intelligence analysts and policymakers.”

– John P. Sullivan, Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism

“Mexico expert George Grayson concisely lays out where Mexico is right now with regard to its war on drugs and organized crime…. But the book's most important element is not history or theory, but the outline for Mexico's future.”

– Malcolm Beith, The News (Mexico City)

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George W. Grayson is the Class of 1938 Professor at the College of William & Mary. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (Washington, D.C.) and an Associate Scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia).

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