Description
US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs
Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry
CSS Studies in Security and International Relations Series
Author: Friesendorf Cornelius
Language: English
Subjects for US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs:
Keywords
Coca Cultivation; illicit; Drug Policies; industry; Reduce Drug Supplies; coca; Poppy Cultivation; cultivation; Illicit Drug Industry; policies; Foreign Drug Policies; reduce; Andean Regional Initiative; supplies; Nixon Initiative; international; Air Interdiction; harm; International Drug Policies; reduction; Illicit Crop Cultivation; IR Scholar; Drug Entrepreneurs; Drug Production; Plan Colombia; Coca Prices; Colombian Military; Coca Paste; Peruvian Coca; Colombian Traffickers; Harm Reduction; CIA Agent; Heroin Market; Southeast Asian Drug; Coca Fields
Publication date: 02-2007
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 04-2015
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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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.
