The Drug War in Latin America
Hegemony and Global Capitalism
Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-20982-4 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-20982-4 (ISBN)
This book examines the militarization of U.S. drug war policies in Latin America that took place in the mid-1980s and explores why this approach has continued despite its inability to achieve the government’s stated targets.
Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has seen increasing levels of homicide, displacement and violence.
Why did the militarization of U.S. drug war policies in Latin America begin and why has it continued despite its inability to achieve the stated targets? Are such policies simply intended to impose U.S. power or have elites in Latin America internalized this agenda as their own? Why did resistance to this approach emerge in the late-2000s and does this represent a challenge to the prohibitionist agenda?
In this book William Avilés argues that if we are to understand and explain the militarization of the drug war in Latin America a ‘transnational grand strategy’, developed and implemented by networks of elites and state managers operating in a neoliberal, globalized social structure of accumulation, must be considered and examined.
Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has seen increasing levels of homicide, displacement and violence.
Why did the militarization of U.S. drug war policies in Latin America begin and why has it continued despite its inability to achieve the stated targets? Are such policies simply intended to impose U.S. power or have elites in Latin America internalized this agenda as their own? Why did resistance to this approach emerge in the late-2000s and does this represent a challenge to the prohibitionist agenda?
In this book William Avilés argues that if we are to understand and explain the militarization of the drug war in Latin America a ‘transnational grand strategy’, developed and implemented by networks of elites and state managers operating in a neoliberal, globalized social structure of accumulation, must be considered and examined.
William Avilés is Professor of Political Science at The University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA. He teaches courses on the Politics of the Developing World; Latin American Politics; The Politics of the Drug War; and Democracy Around the World.
Introduction. Chapter 1: Global Capitalism, Transnational Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy. Chapter 2: Capitalist Globalization, Prohibition and the U.S. Drug War. Chapter 3: Plan Colombia And the Merida Initiative-Waging War to Advance Capitalist Globalization. Chapter 4: Social Conflict, Coca Eradication and The Transnational Elite in Bolivia and Peru. Chapter 5: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Drug War. Conclusion. Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.11.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 422 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-20982-1 / 1138209821 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-20982-4 / 9781138209824 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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