The Latin American narcotics trade and U.S. national security
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The Latin American narcotics trade and U.S. national security
（Contributions in political science, no. 240）
Greenwood Press, c1989
Available at 15 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [185]-196
Includes index
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Description
The Latin American narcotics trade is an important national security issue for the United States because it is destabilizing important Latin American allies and creating serious social problems within the United States. Frustration with the inability to block the flow of cocaine, marijuana, and heroin from Latin America prompted passage of major national anti-drug laws in 1986 and 1988. Throughout the decade, United States narcotics policy has created serious friction between the United States and Latin America yet, according to Mabry, it essentially has failed in its goals.
Nine experts on this subject deal with the major issues of United States narcotics policy and offer recommendations for future action. The history of the United States narcotics policy, the nature of the trade, the debate over the use of the United States military in interdiction efforts, the role of Congress in making policy, and the origin and implementation of narcotics policy, be it directed against a specific nation or against the entire region, are presented. In addition, the book also contains a List of Tables covering: Consumption of Drugs, and Columbian Trafficker's Investment Preferences. An extensive bibliography is included designed to give other scholars and those interested in this issue an excellent start for further research.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Janos Radvanyi Background Narcotics and National Security Nativism, Cultural Conflict, Drug Control: United States and Latin American Antinarcotics Diplomacy through 1965 Contemporary U.S. Narcotics Policy Mexican Narcotics Traffic: Binational Security Implications The New Hundred Years War? U.S. National Security and the War on Drugs in Latin America The Cocaine Dilemma in South America The Military, Congress, and the War on Drugs The Role of the U.S. Military in the War on Drugs International Narcopolicy and the Role of the U.S. Congress The View from Mexico Rethinking Hemispheric Antinarcotics Strategy and Security Narcotics as a Destablizing Force for Source Countries and Non-source Countries Policy Options Antinarcotics Strategies and U.S.-Latin American Relations Concluding Observations and Policy Recommendations Bibliography Index
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