Patterns in border security: regional comparisons

Abstract

The volume presents a comparative study of border security policies with a special focus on both internal and cross-border cooperation between the agencies and actors responsible for dealing with cross-border security issues. The need for such cooperation arises in response to the rise of transnational illegal economic activities that exploit not only cross-border di ff er-ences in prices and demand but also poor coordination of joint law enforcement e ff orts. The book consists of the introduction (by Christian Leuprecht, Todd Hataley, Kelly Sund-berg, Keith Cozine, and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly) and seven chapters, devoted to seven regional case studies: U.S. and Canada (authored by Christian Leuprecht, Todd Hataley, Kelly Sundberg, Keith Cozine and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly), Australia and New Zealand (by Jamie Ferrill, Germana Nicklin, Tim Legrand and Haydn McComas), European Union (by Johann Wagner), Latin America ’ s Southern Cone (by Adriana Dorfman, Rafael Francisco França and Julian Mokwa Felix), Middle East and North Africa (MENA; by Daniel Meier), Africa ’ s Sahel (by Thomas Cantens), and India-Pakistan (by Dhananjay Tripathi).