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The Cocaine War in Context

Author : Belén Boville Luca de Tena
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875862950
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Cocaine War in Context written by Belén Boville Luca de Tena and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spanish journalist reveals what the Drug War really means: the danger it poses to the political stability of weak democracies, human rights and development and its environmental impact. In an important and desperately needed alternative view on the 'war on drugs, ' Boville explores in depth the relationship betweenthe United States and Latin America, explaining the political need of the U.S. government to develop a useful tool to extend American authority after the Cold War. She depicts Andean society and the cocaine culture, with all of the social, political, environmental and economic changes brought about by drug trafficking, and provides essential information on how the Drug War currently works in order to predict what the future may hold. The book has proven widely popular in Spanish, especially in Latin America. In the complex web of today's politics, this courageous and intelligent text offers an objective, critical look at all aspects influencing the war on drugs. RELEVANT ACADEMIC COURSES: Political Science, International Relations, History, Economics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology. Other works on this topic are mostly anecdotal; none of them provides an historic and environmental perspective, and none gives importance to international relations as this book does. This is an essay about the past and the future, useful for academic purposes, but also for general information about the €current drug war in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and the United States.

Cocaine

Author : Linda Bickerstaff
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435850149
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Cocaine written by Linda Bickerstaff and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the dangers of using cocaine, discussing the various effects it has on the human body and its impact on society.

Coca, Cocaine and the War on Drugs

Author : Catholic Institute for International Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coca, Cocaine and the War on Drugs written by Catholic Institute for International Relations and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The War on Drugs II

Author : James A. Inciardi
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The War on Drugs II written by James A. Inciardi and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cocaine

Author : Enrique Desmond Arias
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021950
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cocaine written by Enrique Desmond Arias and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on in-depth interviews and archival research, these essays examine how government agents, acting both within and outside the law, and criminal actors seek to manage the flow of illicit drugs to both maintain order and earn profits. Whether discussing the moral economy of coca cultivation in Bolivia, criminal organizations and drug traffickers in Mexico, or the routes cocaine takes as it travels into and through Guatemala, the contributors demonstrate how entire ways of life are built around cocaine commodification. They consider how the authority of state actors is coupled with the self-regulating practices of drug producers, traffickers, and dealers, complicating notions of governance and of the relationships between economic and moral economies. The collection also outlines a more progressive drug policy that acknowledges the important role drugs play in the lives of those at the urban and rural margins. Contributors. Enrique Desmond Arias, Lilian Bobea, Philippe Bourgois, Anthony W. Fontes, Robert Gay, Paul Gootenberg, Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Thomas Grisaffi, Laurie Kain Hart, Annette Idler, George Karandinos, Fernando Montero, Dennis Rodgers, Taniele Rui, Cyrus Veeser, Autumn Zellers-León

Snow Job

Author : Kevin Jack Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351292781
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Snow Job written by Kevin Jack Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cocaine has had a long and prominent position in the history of American substance abuse. As far back as the late 1800s cocaine was commonly found hi patent medicines, elixirs, and, astonishingly, in the earliest versions of Coca-Cola. Eventually, the potency of cocaine was recognized and its purveyors came under gradual regulation. Events hi the early 1900s kept cocaine use down until World War II, but the extensive drug use of the 1960s once again sparked a national temperance movement. Created in 1989, the Office of National Drug Control Policy maintains responsibility for coordinating and monitoring the nation's countemarcotics policy. But responsibility for coordination and monitoring is not the same thing as control. In Snow Job? Kevin Jack Riley examines source country control policies—policies intended to control the production and export of cocaine from Latin America—and their limitations. Part I draws together drug use, drug production, and drug control policies hi an analytic framework. It goes on to examine the recent history of U.S. drug control policies, source country control policies, the ways hi which cocaine prices affect cocaine use, how cocaine is made, and the vulnerable points in its production. Part II examines the economic effects that production and controls exert on the sources of cocaine—Bolivia and Peru—and probes the Colombian drug lord connection. Part III prescribes an appropriate path for source country cocaine policies and examines their implications for two other widely smuggled drugs, heroin and marijuana. Riley disagrees with analysts who believe that source country control policies can lead to permanent victory hi the war against cocaine, because of the potentially high costs associated with implementing source country control policies on a large scale. He suggests a better strategy would be one that recognizes the severe limits facing interdiction, eradication, and other source country policies, and instead focuses on directing source country resources where they will be most useful. This necessitates defining a regional strategy that elevates political stability and institution building, and demotes traditional countemarcotics objectives. Snow Job? offers original thinking and practical approaches to a multidimensional world problem and will be of interest to policymakers, political scientists, sociologists, and law enforcement officials.

The War on Drugs

Author : James A. Inciardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The War on Drugs written by James A. Inciardi and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of dramas, key members of American society, law enforcement, and government struggle to define the influence that these drugs have on our culture.

cocaine production and trafficking what do we know?

Author : Carlos Esteban Posada
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book cocaine production and trafficking what do we know? written by Carlos Esteban Posada and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to summarize the information currently available on cocaine production and trafficking. The paper starts by describing the available data on cocaine production and trade, the collection methodologies (if available) used by different sources, the main biases in the data, and the accuracy of different data sources. Next, it states some of the key empirical questions and hypotheses regarding cocaine production and trade and takes a first look at how well the data match these hypotheses. The paper states some of the main puzzles in the cocaine market and studies some of the possible explanations. These puzzles and empirical questions should guide future research on the key determinants of illicit drug production and trafficking. Finally, the paper studies the different policies that producer countries have adopted to fight against cocaine production and the role consumer countries play in the implementation of anti-drug policies.

US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs

Author : Cornelius Friesendorf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415413756
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs written by Cornelius Friesendorf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cocaine

Author : Dominic Streatfeild
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312422264
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Cocaine written by Dominic Streatfeild and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide issues it presents today.

White Mischief

Author : Tim Madge
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781560253709
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book White Mischief written by Tim Madge and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of one of America's most persistent illegal drugs follows the emergence of cocaine in America, from its revered use among the Inca and its initial inroads into North America as an ingredient in Coca-Cola through its rise to prominence as a status drug in the 1980s and its current popularity on the street. Original.

A Brief History of Cocaine

Author : Steven B. Karch MD FFFLM
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040080200
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Cocaine written by Steven B. Karch MD FFFLM and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brief History of Cocaine, Second Edition provides a fascinating historical insight into the reasons why cocaine use is increasing in popularity and why the rise of the cocaine trade is tightly linked with the rise of terrorism The author illustrates the challenges faced by today's governments and explains why current anti-drug efforts have had only a limited effect on this global market.This updated edition reexamines the impact of cocaine production, trade, and consumption on society beginning in the 16th century. It shows how the commercialization of cocaine was driven by cartels of Swiss and German pharmaceutical companies and private enterprises across Europe, Asia, and the United States. The author shows how government policies slowly transformed from trade, shipping, and manufacturing regulations, with little or no success in stemming the flow of drugs. The book describes how anti-drug laws, treaties, and costly initiatives involving crop substitution, crop suppression, interdiction, and international cooperation were first attempted more than 400 years ago and why these strategies failed for Colonial Spain and later backfired on the League of Nations. The author shows how economic necessity among growers, the environmental impact of pesticides, the potential for genetic engineering of coca plants, and other loopholes have actually been counterproductive, undermining the current efforts to curb the cocaine trade. Featuring new and reorganized chapters, A Brief History of Cocaine, Second Edition contains the latest data and statistics relating drug trafficking to terrorism, and explains recent trends in worldwide production, consumption, cost competition, and international transport. This book offers a well-rounded historical perspective that is ideal for criminal justice practitioners, teachers, students, and anyone interested in this topic.

Beyond the War on Drugs

Author : Steven Wisotsky
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615928359
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the War on Drugs written by Steven Wisotsky and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative and controversial book rejects the popular pablum of more laws, more money, more enforcement personnel, and more jails as the road to victory in the "war on drugs." Author Steven Wisotsky masterfully documents the failure of the drug war and the erroneous premise central to its destructive and doomed strategy: the idea that drug taking controls human behavior; that drugs "cause" physical dependency. Americans must move beyond the war on drugs by repudiating their obsessive preoccupation with controlling or prohibiting drugs. Instead, we must replace this mindset with a new view that acknowledges individual freedom and the power of directing our choices toward responsible human behavior. According to Wisotsky, the idea of "waging war" on drugs is central to the problem rather than a fundamental part of any solution. He takes the Reagan-Bush-Bennett campaign to task for its failed efforts to cut the supply of drugs, reduce public demand, and enforce laws regarding the sale and distribution of controlled substances. Wisotsky contends that the war on drugs will remain inadequate so long as society continues to be seduced by the battle cries of its own stepped-up combat in which the "enemy" (drugs) must be eradicated at all cost. The rationale for doing battle has become so embedded in the public mind that we no longer recognize the need for a critical review of social policy, strategy, or the methods needed to achieve our desired goals. Have we simply created a new type of Prohibition, which is destined to fail? And if this is the case, then what does it say about our society? Have we lost the ability to reflect critically on our social motives and purposes, as well as our justification for the actions we take, simply because we've declared "war" on the "enemy" and we aren't going to stop the good fight until we've "won"? Beyond the War on Drugs offers hard-hitting arguments to support the growing public opinion that this war, as it is currently conceived, cannot be won and ought not to be fought. Wisotsky argues persuasively for a reassessment of this struggle. We must go beyond the war on drugs to develop a public policy that acknowledges human intelligence, free choice, and individual responsibility.

Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality

Author : Madeline Barbara L?ons
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791434826
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality written by Madeline Barbara L?ons and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edited volume of contributions from Bolivian, American, and British political scientists, development sociologists, anthropologists, and historians examines impacts of the coca/cocaine economy on Bolivian society and politics, and on the US, in recent years. Together these works constitute the most complete, updated collection of analyses about this controversial public policy issue affecting US/Bolivian relations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Drug Wars

Author : Curtis Marez
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816640591
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Drug Wars written by Curtis Marez and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inaugurated in 1984, America's "War on Drugs" is just the most recent skirmish in a standoff between global drug trafficking and state power. From Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars in China to the activities of Colombia's drug cartels and their suppression by U.S.-backed military forces today, conflicts over narcotics have justified imperial expansion, global capitalism, and state violence, even as they have also fueled the movement of goods and labor around the world. In Drug Wars, cultural critic Curtis Marez examines two hundred years of writings, graphic works, films, and music that both demonize and celebrate the commerce in cocaine, marijuana, and opium, providing a bold interdisciplinary exploration of drugs in the popular imagination. Ranging from the writings of Sigmund Freud to pro-drug lord Mexican popular music, gangsta rap, and Brian De Palma's 1983 epic Scarface, Drug Wars moves from the representations and realities of the Opium Wars to the long history of drug and immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexican border, and to cocaine use and interdiction in South America, Middle Europe, and among American Indians. Throughout Marez juxtaposes official drug policy and propaganda with subversive images that challenge and sometimes even taunt government and legal efforts. As Marez shows, despite the state's best efforts to use the media to obscure the hypocrisies and failures of its drug policies-be they lurid descriptions of Chinese opium dens in the English popular press or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign-marginalized groups have consistently opposed the expansion of state power that drug traffic has historically supported. Curtis Marez is assistant professorof critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

Snowfields

Author : Clare Hargreaves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snowfields written by Clare Hargreaves and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British journalist Hargreaves examines the cocaine industry in Bolivia, which has tripled since the US instigated drug-war against Colombians. She interviews dealers, growers, addicts, and officials of both the Bolivian and US government, and concludes that the trade must be stopped at the demand end, not the supply end. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Cocaine

Author : Joseph F. Spillane
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862304
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Cocaine written by Joseph F. Spillane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-01-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arguing that the underground drug culture had origins other than in federal prohibition, he concludes with some thoughts on what our early experience with legalization and prohibition can tell us as we face questions about drug policy today."--BOOK JACKET.