The Drug War in Latin America: Hegemony and Global Capitalism
In: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
Abstract
"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."--Provided by publisher.
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Themen
Drug control, United States, Latin America, Diplomatic relations, Drug traffic, American Politics, Foreign Policy, Latin American & Hispanic Studies, Latin American Politics, Legislative Politics, U.S. Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement, Economic aspects
Verlag
Taylor and Francis
Seiten
216
Edition
First edition.
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