US foreign policy and the war on drugs : displacing the cocaine and heroin industry / Cornelius Friesendorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friesendorf, Cornelius.

Series:

CSS studies in security and international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug control--United States--History.

Drug control.

Heroin industry.

Government policy.

Cocaine industry--Government policy.

Cocaine industry.

United States.

History.

Cocaine industry--Government policy--United States.

Heroin industry--Government policy--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

United States foreign policy and the war on drugs

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

This book examines the geographic displacement of the illicit drug industry as a side effect of United States foreign policy. To reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin from abroad, the US has relied on coercion against farmers, traffickers and governments, but this has only exacerbated the world's drugs problems.US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs develops and applies a causal mechanism to explain the displacement, analyzing US anti-drug initiatives at different times and in various regions. The findings clearly show that American foreign policy has been a major driving force behind the global spread of the illicit drug industry, calling for urgent revision.This book will be of interest to students of US foreign policy, security studies and international relations in general.

Contents:

US drug policy and drug industry displacement

Targeting Turkey and the French connection : the early 1970s

Targeting smugglers flying over the Andes : the 1990s

Targeting the Colombian drug industry : the early twenty-first century

Drug industry displacement and side effects of foreign policy

Alternatives to the US war on drugs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-222) and index.

ISBN:

0415413753

9780415413756

0203964594

9780203964590

OCLC:

70866970