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Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America

Autor Ted Galen Carpenter
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2003

The domestic phase of Washington's war on drugs has received considerable criticism over the years from a variety of individuals. Until recently, however, most critics have not stressed the damage that the international phase of the drug war has done to our Latin American neighbors. That lack of attention has begun to change and Ted Carpenter chronicles our disenchantment with the hemispheric drug war. Some prominent Latin American political leaders have finally dared to criticize Washington while at the same time, the U.S. government seems determined to perpetuate, if not intensify, the antidrug crusade. Spending on federal antidrug measures also continues to increase, and the tactics employed by drug war bureaucracy, both here and abroad, bring the inflammatory "drug war" metaphor closer to reality. Ending the prohibitionist system would produce numerous benefits for both Latin American societies and the United States. In a book deriving from his work at the CATO Institute, Ted Carpenter paints a picture of this ongoing fiasco.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403961372
ISBN-10: 1403961379
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 160 x 242 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Palgrave
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Thirty Years of Failure
Forging the Bad Neighbor Policy: The Drug War from Nixon to Reagan
Escalating and Militarizing the Drug War: The Bush and Clinton Years
Plan Colombia: A Dangerous New Phase in the Drug War
A Mix of Flawed Strategies
Washington's 'Ugly American' Tactics
Reaping the Whirlwind: Consequences to Latin American Societies
Mexico: the Next Colombia?
Polluting the Republic: The Drug War at Home
A Blueprint for Peace: Ending the War on Drugs

Recenzii

'Mr. Carpenter asks Washington to stop its demeaning and costly 'spectacle of alternately bribing and threatening its neighbors...'' - William H. Peterson, Washington Times

'...war on drugs is an all-too-bloody reality, argues this meticulous and impassioned indictment of U.S. drug policy.' - Publishers Weekly Annex

Notă biografică

TED GALEN CARPENTER is Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Captive Press, among other titles.

Caracteristici

1 Ted Carpenter is well-known on the 'talking-head' circuit from radio talk shows
2 The CATO Institute is well-known for developing high quality books that take an incisive look at politics
3 Ted Carpenter is Vice President of CATO
4 The drug war in Latin America is getting bigger and bigger and growing as a fiasco

Descriere

The domestic phase of America's war on drugs has received considerable criticism over the years. Until recently, however, most critics have not stressed the damage of the international phase to America's Latin American neighbors. That lack of attention has begun to change and Ted Carpenter chronicles the disenchantment with the hemispheric drug war. Some prominent Latin American political leaders have finally dared to criticize Washington while at the same time, the U.S. government seems determined to perpetuate, if not intensify, the anti-drug crusade. Spending on federal anti-drug measures also continues to increase, and the tactics employed by drug war bureaucracy, both in America and abroad, bring the inflammatory 'drug war' metaphor close to reality. Ending the prohibitionist system would produce numerous benefits for both Latin American societies and the United States. In a book deriving from his work at the CATO Institute, Ted Carpenter paints a picture of this ongoing fiasco.