Drug war pathologies : embedded corporatism and U.S. drug enforcement in the Americas / Horace A. Bartilow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartilow, Horace A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug control--Economic aspects--United States.

Drug control.

Drug control--Economic aspects--Latin America.

Corporations--Political activity--America.

Corporations.

Corporate state--United States.

Corporate state.

Corporations--Political activity.

Drug control--Economic aspects.

Latin America--Politics and government.

Latin America.

Politics and government.

Human rights--Latin America.

Human rights.

America.

United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In this book, Horace Bartilow develops a theory of embedded corporatism to explain the U.S. government's war on drugs. Stemming from President Richard Nixon's 1971 call for an international approach to this 'war,' the U.S. drug enforcement policy has persisted to the present day, despite widespread criticism of its effectiveness and of its unequal effects on hundreds of millions of people across the Americas. While research has consistently emphasized the role of race in U.S. drug enforcement, Bartilow's analysis empirically highlights the class dimension of the drug war and the immense power that American corporations wield within the regime. Drawing on qualitative case study methods, declassified U.S. government documents, and advanced econometric estimators that analyze cross-national data, Bartilow systematically demonstrates how corporate power, as projected through corporate lobbies, corporate financing of federal elections, corporate funding of policy think tanks, and corporate interlocks with the federal government and the military, create the conditions in which the divergent interests of state and nonstate members of the regime converge in ways that promote capital accumulation. The subsequent human rights repression, illiberal democratic governments, repression of workers, and widening income inequality throughout the Americas, Bartilow argues, are the pathological policy outcomes of the embedded corporatist drug enforcement regime"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Embedded corporatism : a theoretical perspective of U.S. drug enforcement and its pathologies in the Americas

Drug war profiteers : U.S. drug enforcement decision making of Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative

Beyond Colombia and Mérida : the institutional dimension of corporate power in the drug enforcement regime

The corporate elite and the drug enforcement regime

The privatization of terror : U.S. drug enforcement aid, transnational corporate expansion, and human rights repression

Corporate hit men : an empirical analysis of U.S. drug enforcement aid, American corporations, and paramilitary death squads

Democracy without rights : the drug-war national security state and illiberal democracies in Latin America

Drug war capitalism and class conflict in the Americas

Drug war policy reforms and the endurance of the embedded corporatist regime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469652542

1469652544

9781469652559

1469652552

OCLC:

1089840035