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Mountain High White Avalanche
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Author : Scott B. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
Release Date : 1989
Mountain High White Avalanche written by Scott B. MacDonald and has been published by Praeger Pub Text this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Business & Economics categories.
"MacDonald . . . [provides] us with a concise, well-researched overview of how cocaine became a national security threat to the United States and other countries. . . . MacDonald has written a concise volume that provides us with the background necessary to develop the needed policy." Defense & Diplomacy
Mountain High White Avalanche
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Author : Scott B. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1989-06
Mountain High White Avalanche written by Scott B. MacDonald and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-06 with Education categories.
The Latin Amnerican drug trade has become one of the major problems confronting the United States in the late twentieth century. The key dynamic of that trade is cocaine, which is primarily produced in the Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. The cocaine trade's influence, however, has spread outwards into other Andean states--Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Moreover, countries on the Andean periphery, such as Panama, have become enmeshed in the trade as transit points and money-lanudering centers. This book examines the cocaine trade in the Andean states and Panana with a special emphasis given to the relationship between cocaine and power. MacDonald examines the linkages between the political and economic power of those in the cocaine trade, the narcotraficantes, and the governments in the region. Important parts of this issue are the drug-insurgency nexus and the significance of the debt crisis. Although the book concentrates on the structure of the cocaine industry in the Andean states and Panama, the final chapters offer policy options on how to contend with the problem.
Global Habit
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Author : Paul B. Stares
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Global Habit written by Paul B. Stares and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Social Science categories.
An in-depth study of the complex forces propelling and shaping the global drug market, assessing the direction it is likely to take in the future, and calling for a new approach to international drug control policies.
Mountain High
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Author : Paul J. Brach
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-07-09
Mountain High written by Paul J. Brach and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book, 'Mountain High' relates 28 exciting, outdoor adventures and details the lighter, comical side of climbing, camping, and backpacking. Many of the stories take place in extreme winter conditions. Illustrated with more than 60 photographs.
Shooting Up
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Author : Vanda Felbab-Brown
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-12-01
Shooting Up written by Vanda Felbab-Brown and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Political Science categories.
Most policymakers see counterinsurgency and counternarcotics policy as two sides of the same coin. Stop the flow of drug money, the logic goes, and the insurgency will wither away. But the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrongheaded, as Vanda Felbab-Brown argues in Shooting Up. Counternarcotics campaigns, particularly those focused on eradication, typically fail to bankrupt belligerent groups that rely on the drug trade for financing. Worse, they actually strengthen insurgents by increasing their legitimacy and popular support. Felbab-Brown, a leading expert on drug interdiction efforts and counterinsurgency, draws on interviews and fieldwork in some of the world's most dangerous regions to explain how belligerent groups have become involved in drug trafficking and related activities, including kidnapping, extortion, and smuggling. Shooting Up shows vividly how powerful guerrilla and terrorist organizations — including Peru's Shining Path, the FARC and the paramilitaries in Colombia, and the Taliban in Afghanistan — have learned to exploit illicit markets. In addition, the author explores the interaction between insurgent groups and illicit economies in frequently overlooked settings, such as Northern Ireland, Turkey, and Burma. While aggressive efforts to suppress the drug trade typically backfire, Shooting Up shows that a laissez-faire policy toward illicit crop cultivation can reduce support for the belligerents and, critically, increase cooperation with government intelligence gathering. When combined with interdiction targeting major traffickers, this strategy gives policymakers a better chance of winning both the war against the insurgents and the war on drugs.
Borderland On The Isthmus
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Author : Michael E. Donoghue
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-23
Borderland On The Isthmus written by Michael E. Donoghue and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-23 with History categories.
The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.
Narcodiplomacy
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Author : H. Richard Friman
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1996
Narcodiplomacy written by H. Richard Friman and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
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.
The Military In New Times
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Author : James Burk
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-26
The Military In New Times written by James Burk and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-26 with Political Science categories.
What role will armed forces play in a world that is turbulent yet no longer organized by the bipolar conflict of East and West? In this volume, leading experts from several disciplines assess the rapidly changing global strategic and cultural landscape, examining how it will affect the responsibilities and social standing of the modern military. There are provocative disagreements among the contributors, especially over whether we should expect and prepare for another global war. However, the contributors generally agree on several broad themes that guide their analysis. Arguing that the Cold War has masked basic trends that have been reshaping the international system for a long time, they suggest that the sovereign states' dominance of the international system is rapidly coming to an end, as multinational, ethnic, regional, and religious groups–to name a few–increasingly affect the course of global affairs. In the absence of a clear "enemy," the military faces an identity crisis. In the postmodern atmosphere of this multicentric global order, authority is fragmented, and the exercise of any one authority is subject to greater scrutiny and challenge. The military has become more accepting of a variety of values, life-styles, and attitudes toward its tasks. At the same time, support for the military's mission is difficult to win, requiring endless justification. The authors believe that the principal missions for the military in these new times are peacekeeping, peacemaking, and humanitarian assistance. They examine the prospects for successful operations in these areas, taking into account the cultural lag between world structures that favor increased multinational peacekeeping forces and individual nations that supply token resources to support such efforts. This volume provides a sophisticated and thought-provoking perspective on the future role of the military in the coming decades. It is sure to enrich the vigorous debate surrounding these issues.
Special Warfare
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Special Warfare written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Military art and science categories.
Air University Library Index To Military Periodicals
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Air University Library Index To Military Periodicals written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Aeronautics categories.