The Drug War in Latin America Hegemony and Global Capitalism Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy Series
Auteur : Avilés William
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.
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
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.
Date de parution : 09-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 10-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de The Drug War in Latin America :
Mots-clés :
Grand Strategy Makers; Trans-national Elites; Drug Policy; Transnational Elite; Nations General Assembly Special Session; Drug War Policies; Prohibitionist Paradigm; Low Intensity Democracies; Foreign Drug Policies; Plan Colombia; Van Apeldoorn; Drug War; Drug Control Policies; Coca Eradication; Illegal Psychoactive Substances; International Drug Control Treaties; International Drug Control; Drug Policy Reform; Coca Growers; National Security Strategy; Transnational Advocacy Networks; Civil Society; IDPC; Coca Production; Facilitating Drug Trafficking