Book contents
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Animals and Government in Mexico
- 2 Sharing Sovereignty in a Technical Commission
- 3 Spiking the Sanitary Rifle
- 4 Soldiers, Syringes, Surveys, and Secrets
- 5 Making a Livestock State
- 6 Mexico and the Cold War on Animal Disease
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Latin American Studies (continued from page ii)
2 - Sharing Sovereignty in a Technical Commission
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2022
Book contents
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Animals and Government in Mexico
- 2 Sharing Sovereignty in a Technical Commission
- 3 Spiking the Sanitary Rifle
- 4 Soldiers, Syringes, Surveys, and Secrets
- 5 Making a Livestock State
- 6 Mexico and the Cold War on Animal Disease
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Latin American Studies (continued from page ii)
Summary
Chapter 2 explains how and why the campaign against aftosa adopted the policies it did, focusing on high politics of bilateral diplomacy, the main competing political and economic interests on both sides of the border, and bureaucratic infrapolitics. The Mexican government used international ties, obfuscation and delay to gradually blunt US policy preferences and shift the aftosa campaign from slaughter to vaccination. In this way the campaign illustrates the diplomatic leverage Mexico retained in the postwar period, and how it was used.
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- The Dread Plague and the Cow KillersThe Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World, pp. 34 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022