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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Global Drug Phenomenon: Lessons from History and Future Challenges -- 2 U.S. Narcotics Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century: An Analytical Overview -- 3 U.S. Foreign Policy and International Narcotics Control: Challenges and Opportunities in the 1990s and Beyond -- 4 International Drug Policy and the U.S. Congress -- 5 The Role of Law Enforcement -- 6 The Role of the Military -- 7 The Role of Economic Development: Policy Options for Increased Peasant Participation in Peru and Bolivia -- 8 World-Wide and Regional Anti-Drug Programs -- 9 Drugs in Post-Communist Societies -- 10 The Limits and Consequences of U.S. Foreign Drug Control Efforts -- About the Contributors -- About the Book.

This report includes information regarding background and the United States policy response to terrorism and national security.

An important issue for many US citizens, particularly those who live in the inner city and in major urban areas, is the level of administration concern regarding the impact of drugs on US society and the relative priority the administration assigns to drugs as a policy issue.In mid-October 1993, the Clinton administration released an interim policy statement setting forth its proposed strategy for national drug control. Consisting of both domestic and international components, this strategy seeks to downplay the drug issue as a priority driving the new administration's policy agenda. Within the United States, the drug policy is linked to other important domestic goals and is envisioned as just one of the elements in efforts to spur economic growth, reform health care, curb violence among the nation's youth, and "empower communities."

Critical of US plan to emphasize interdiction efforts in Latin American countries over reducing domestic demand.

In September 1989, President Bush outlined a comprehensive, multi-faceted drug control strategy with both national and international dimensions. The strategy focused on reducing both the demand and supply of illicit drugs. Treatment, prevention/education, research, law enforcement, and international efforts are major components of the strategy. An important goal of the strategy was to reduce the amount of illicit drugs illegally entering the United States by 15% within 2 years and by 60% within 10 years. The president refined the strategy and forwarded it to Congress on 25 January 1990 (US-ONDCP, 1990: 49-52, 120-121). The following year, in February 1991, policymakers modified goals to a 20% reduction by 1993 and a 65% reduction by the year 2001 (US-ONDCP, 1991: 15).

In a Nationally televised speech on 5 September 1989, President Bush outlined a comprehensive anti-drug program with both domestic and international dimensions. The objectives of this strategy, which was refined and submitted to the Congress on 25 January 1990, are to reduce the amount of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and other dangerous drugs estimated to be entering the United States (a) by 15% within 2 years and (b) by 60% within 10 years.The strategy includes a number of international components which differ greatly from policies of previous years. New to the strategy are provisions which: (1) provide — for the first time — support for limited economic assistance to major cocaineproducing countries; (2) concentrate more on disrupting the activities of the trafficking organizations [i.e. on seizing processing labs, chemicals and assets] and less on disrupting the activities of farmers [i.e., crop eradication]; (3) encourage increased levels of Andean nation military involvement in counter-narcotics operations; and (4) provide for enhanced US military support to host nation counter-narcotics forces.