Alejandro Lerch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Lerch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Lerch |
| SIGNATURE | LERCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of Geneva (IHEID) |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0058-0933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Great Neoliberal War
In the past decades, Mexico has hosted one of the world's deadliest internal conflicts. There are few global parallels to the scale of killing, disappearances, mass graves, feminicides, kidnappings, extortion, murder of social activists and violence against journalists. Predominant interpretations and governmental narratives cast Mexico's conflict as owing fundamentally to state weakness and criminal organizations bidding to control drug flows. T…
State-Crime Relations
Police Protection Rackets and Political Modernity in Mexico
This article provides a long-term historical periodization of federal police agencies under Mexico's single-party regime (1930s-2000). Based on archival findings in Mexico and the United States, as well as interviews with former law-enforcement officials, the article documents and reflects, in particular, on the entanglements between federal policing agencies and organized crime (police protection rackets). Drawing from bandit studies and critica…
Police Protection Rackets and Political Modernity in Mexico
This article provides a long-term historical periodization of federal police agencies under Mexico's single-party regime (1930s-2000). Based on archival findings in Mexico and the United States, as well as interviews with former law-enforcement officials, the article documents and reflects, in particular, on the entanglements between federal policing agencies and organized crime (police protection rackets). Drawing from bandit studies and critica…
State-Crime Relations
Police Protection Rackets and Political Modernity in Mexico
This article provides a long-term historical periodization of federal police agencies under Mexico's single-party regime (1930s-2000). Based on archival findings in Mexico and the United States, as well as interviews with former law-enforcement officials, the article documents and reflects, in particular, on the entanglements between federal policing agencies and organized crime (police protection rackets). Drawing from bandit studies and critica…
The Great Neoliberal War
In the past decades, Mexico has hosted one of the world's deadliest internal conflicts. There are few global parallels to the scale of killing, disappearances, mass graves, feminicides, kidnappings, extortion, murder of social activists and violence against journalists. Predominant interpretations and governmental narratives cast Mexico's conflict as owing fundamentally to state weakness and criminal organizations bidding to control drug flows. T…
Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Algorithm (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Development economics (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · History (1 work)