Nolan on Drug War Narratives, Violence, and the Limits of National Security Frameworks
On March 28th, Professor Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International History and author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, took part in a panel discussion titled ‘Drug War Narratives and the Violence of National Security Paradigm’ that took place at Harvard University. The discussion was part…
Nolan Reflects on Stability of One-Party Rule
On September 6, 2023, Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was quoted in a New York Times article on the relationship between the state and crime syndicates in Mexico. The article discusses the 2014 mass abduction in Mexico, where the state and local cartels conspired to…