Historique
Livre
Snow job: the war against international cocaine trafficking
(La guerre contre le trafic international de cocaïne)
Auteur(s) :
RILEY, K. J.
Année
1996
Page(s) :
303 p.
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Éditeur(s) :
New Brunswick & London : Transaction Publishers
ISBN :
978-1-56000-242-0
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus mots-clés
CONTROLE DES STUPEFIANTS
;
REPRESSION
;
COCAINE
;
TRAFIC INTERNATIONAL
;
LUTTE
;
POLITIQUE
;
ECONOMIE
Thésaurus géographique
BOLIVIE
;
PEROU
;
ETATS-UNIS
Note générale :
New Brunswick, Transaction publishers, 1996, 303 p., fig., ill., tabl.
Résumé :
In Snow Job? Kevin Jack Riley examines source country control policies - policies intended to control the production and export of cocaine from Latin America - and their limitations. Part I draws together drug use, drug production, and drug control policies in an analytic framework. It goes on to examine the recent history of U.S. drug control policies, source country control policies, the ways in which cocaine prices affect cocaine use, how cocaine is made, and the vulnerable points in its production. Part II examines the economic effects that production and controls exert on the sources of cocaine - Bolivia and Peru - and probes the Colombian drug lord connection. Part III prescribes an appropriate path for source country cocaine policies and examines their implications for two other widely smuggled drugs, heroin and marijuana. Riley disagrees with analysts who believe that source country control policies can lead to permanent victory in the war against cocaine, because of the potentially high costs associated with implementing source country control policies on a large scale. He suggests a better strategy would be one that recognizes the severe limits facing interdiction, eradication, and other source country policies, and instead focuses on directing source country resources where they will be most useful. This necessitates defining a regional strategy that elevates political stability and institution building, and demotes traditional counternarcotics objectives. [Editor's abstract]
Affiliation :
Etats-Unis. United States.
Cote :
L00626