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NarcoDiplomacy
Author | : H. Richard Friman |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080143274X |
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If illicit drug trafficking is a global problem, why won't other nations comply with the drug control agenda of the United States? NarcoDiplomacy departs from traditional responses to this question, which have held that compliance with the American agenda has been beyond the capacity of key countries. By focusing on Germany and Japan, touted as two of the strongest allies of the United States in drug control efforts, H. Richard Friman exposes the flaws in capacity arguments and the policies based on them. Drawing on sources ranging from previously unknown Imperial German archives to interviews with policy makers and law enforcement officials, Friman offers a thorough analysis of bilateral and multilateral relations. He traces their evolution from international opium control efforts of the early 1900s through disputes over cocaine and money laundering during the Reagan and Bush antidrug campaigns. His work reveals that, although the internal logic of the U.S. posture was sound, American policy makers failed to recognize the nature of German and Japanese cooperation and defection, or to identify which aspects of capacity were at issue. The resulting policy, Friman contends, actually undermined German and Japanese compliance with the American agenda. Extending this analysis to Latin America, NarcoDiplomacy explores the ramifications of Friman's findings for the future of U.S. drug control policy.
Yakuza
Author | : David E. Kaplan,Alec Dubro |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2003-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520215613 |
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"A fascinating study of how criminal enterprise can infect the very heart of modern capitalism. Here is the backstage world of political influence and organized crime in the world's second largest economy... by far the most detailed and even-handed study of this important and neglected subject."—John W. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Reviews of original edition: "A superb study of Japan's underworld that is both entertaining and revealing. The authors miss none of the color and curious detail of the yakuza style, but at the same time go far beyond surface observations."—Far Eastern Economic Review "The book is laden with fascinating information, some of it heretofore unavailable in English."—Washington Post "Blend the Mafia with the Masons. Let them simmer a while, then fold in the Ku Klux Klan and you'll have the yakuza…. Important and timely…Yakuza will serve for years as the source document on Japanese organized crime."—San Jose Mercury News "State-of-the-art investigative reporting…must reading for those who consider themselves already highly conversant with yakuza activities…disturbing."—Journal of Asian Studies
The Illicit Global Economy and State Power
Author | : Richard H. Friman,Peter Andreas |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1999-02-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781461644460 |
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Illicit cross-border flows, such as the smuggling of drugs, migrants, weapons, toxic waste, and dirty money, are proliferating on a global scale. This underexplored, clandestine side of globalization has emerged as an increasingly important source of conflict and cooperation among nation-states, state agents, nonstate actors, and international organizations. Contrary to scholars and policymakers who claim a general erosion of state power in the face of globalization, this pathbreaking volume of original essays explores the selective nature of the stateOs retreat, persistence, and reassertion in relation to the illicit global economy. It fills a gap in the international political economy literature and offers a new and powerful lens through which to examine core issues of concern to international relations scholars: the changing nature of states and markets, the impact of globalization across place and issue areas, and the sources of cooperation and conflict.
Latin America Confronts the United States
Author | : Tom Long |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107121249 |
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Using multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.
Cocaine
Author | : Paul Gootenberg |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134600717 |
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Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs of today. Themes explored include: * Amsterdam's complex cocaine culture * the manufacture, sale and control of cocaine in the United States * Japan and the Southeast Asian cocaine industry * export of cocaine prohibitions to Peru * sex, drugs and race in early modern London Cocaine unveils new primary sources and covert social, cultural and political transformations to shed light on cocaine's hidden history.
Cocaine Trafficking in Latin America
Author | : Sayaka Fukumi |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2016-05-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781317164890 |
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The post-Cold War world has seen the emergence of new kinds of security threats. Whilst traditionally security threats were perceived of in terms of military threats against a state, non-traditional security threats are those that pose a threat to various internal competencies of the state and its identity both home and abroad. The European Union and the United States have identified Latin American cocaine trafficking as a security threat, but their policy responses to it have differed. This book examines the ways in which the EU and the US have conceptualized this threat. Furthermore, it explores the impact of cocaine trafficking on four state functions - economic, political, public order and diplomatic - in order to explain why it has become 'securitized'. Appealing to a variety of university courses, this book is especially relevant to security studies and European and US policy analysis, as well as criminology and sociology.
From Silver to Cocaine
Author | : Steven Topik,Carlos Marichal,Zephyr Frank |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2006-07-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0822337665 |
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DIVClaims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective./div
Transregional Connections in the History of East Central Europe
Author | : Katja Castryck-Naumann |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110680560 |
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Transregional connections play a fundamental role in the history of East-Central Europe. This volume explores this connectivity by showing how people from eastern and central parts of Europe have positioned themselves within global processes while, in turn, also shaping them. The contributions examine different fields of action such as economy, arts, international regulations and law, development aid, and migration, focusing on the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War. The authors uncover spaces of interaction and emphasize that internal and external entanglements have established East-Central Europe as a distinct region. Understanding the connectedness of this subregion is stimulating for the historiography of East-Central Europe as it is for the field of global history.