This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region's sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters.

Vicente Riccio holds a doctorate on Sociology from Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro and was the coordinator of the graduate program of Law and Innovation at Federal University of Juiz de For a (2017 - 2023), Brazil. He also has worked as a consultant for many public institutions in Brazil, such as the Ministry of Justice, Public Security Secretary of Rio de Janeiro, Civil Police of Amazonas. His research interests are police reform, legal systems in developing democracies, media, justice and video evidence. He has organized "Police and Society in Brazil" (Routledge) book coedited with Wesley Skogan (Northwestern University. He has also published articles and book chapters in international and Brazilian publications.

Guilherme Lopes da Cunha is an Adjunct Professor at the Brazilian War College (ESG), and a Collaborating Professor at the Brazilian Defense College (ESD) from the Brazilian Ministry of Defense. Associate Researcher in the Projects "Critical Analysis of Judicial Decisions Relating to Environmental Crimes in the Amazon: the case of Apuí and Lábrea", and "Prospective for Security and Defense" (PROCAD-DEFESA), supported by the Brazilian Ministries of Defense and Education. He holds Postdoctoral Studies in International Relations (2021-2023) at the University of Brasilia, PhD (2017) and MA (2013) in International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and Bachelor of Laws (2005) at the Catholic University of Petrópolis. Executive Committee Member and Section Program Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Section (IDSS) at the International Studies Association (ISA)

Introduction

Introduction: Why the Rule of Law?

Vicente Riccio and Guilherme Lopes

Part I: Crime, Violence, and the Rule of Law in the Amazon

Vicente Riccio, Giuseppe Giura, Deborah De Felice, Dorlí João Marques, Antonio Gelson de Oliveira Nascimento

2 - The Law in a Frontier Region: The Peruvian State and its Complex Relationships with the Amazon

Oscar Espinosa

3 - Devastating devastation: impact of crime in the Colombian Amazon

Juan Carlos Ruiz Vazquez, Rubén Sánchez David

4 - Organized Crime and the Intelligence System in Amazonas

Rodrigo Castro, Fabio Licata, Giuseppe Giura, Sandro Sarkis, and Vicente Riccio

5 - Ecuador's presence in the Amazon: security, weak institutions, questioned capabilities and strategic opportunities

Katalina Barreiro Santana and Diego Pérez Enríquez

6 - Strategic resources, border economies, urbanization of the indigenous population and transnational threats in the Amazon: the security problems of Lago Agrio in Ecuador

Milton Reyes Herrera, Patricio Trujillo Montalvo

7 - Policing Indigenous Lands Impacted by Hydroelectrical Dams in the Brazilian State of Rondônia

Rafael, Artur de Souza Moret, Jean Carlo dos Santos

8 - A Polycentric Governance Model through the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization: Capabilities for Tackling Transnational Threats?

Carlos Alfredo Lazary Teixeira, Fabio Queiroz and Guilherme Lopes

Part II - Policing Challenges in the Amazon

9 - Being a Policewoman in the Brazilian Amazon

Ludmila Ribeiro

10 - Procedural Justice Perceptions and Hierarchy at the Civil Police of Amazonas

Eduardo Magrone, Mario Aufiero, Vicente Riccio, Wagner Silveira Rezende

11 - Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon border and State discretion in granting asylum to Venezuelans

Janaína de Mendonça Fernandes

Part III - Law and the Environmental Protection in the Amazon

12 - Intellectual Property Rights Legislation as a Source of Inequality: a case study based on natural genetic resources from the Amazon region

Marcos Vinício Chein Feres

13 - The environmental protection in French Guiana: normative scheme and stakes

Frédéric Bondil, Carole Hassoun, Mathilde Kamal-Girard, Jean-Philippe Vauthier

14 - Piracy and Traditional Knowledge in the Amazon

Raimundo Pontes

15 - The Brazilian Amazon Between Geopolitics and Law

Guilherme Sandoval Góes and Antonio dos Santos