Borders and drug policy: researching the experiences of Brasil and Uruguai

Abstract

 This article presents the exploratory part of the Research Project "Borders and Drug Policy", developed by the researchers of the Laboratory of International Research and Borders Studies – Lepif with the overall objective to investigate the policies of the countries of South America in general, and those countries related to drugs specifically. This study has by propose a comparative and analytical approach to drug policy implemented in Brazil and Uruguay, seeking to know the laws and State action networks through a transdisciplinary look, involving, in this first moment, Law, International Relations and sociology. Knowing that the theme of drugs involves since the health of the individual until the drug traffickers and their transnational networks, breaks the boundaries in the global sense to reach, throughout the project, the local and the individual. First comprising the macro policies of states and their characterization from the concepts of national security or human security, for in a second moment, to understand what happens between the borders of these global policies to, in a second moment, understand what happens between the borders of these global policies with local dynamics from the transnational spaces named borders.