Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

On 1-2 September 2011, a workshop on the impact of organised crime on governance and state building took place in New York City. The workshop, in which around 15 experts participated, was a follow-up of the regional seminar on Organised Crime and State Capture that was held in Lima, Peru earlier thi

This fact-finding and policy review paper is a comparitive analysis about the impacts of organized crime, and specifically drugs related crime, on the Latin American political systems. The focus of the study is on Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Bolivia. The countries analysed in this study have di