Seeing drugs: modernization, counterinsurgency and US narcotics control in the Third World, 1969 - 1976

Drugs and the American experience -- A terrible disease : metaphors, identity, and source control -- Viewing the drug subcultures of the golden trianglen : source control, COIN, modernization, and the Hmong in Thailand -- Development as drug control : the intersection of modernization, source contro...

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Main Author: Weimer, Daniel 1971- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio Kent State University Press 2011
In:Year: 2011
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Keywords:
Drug control > United States
Drug control > Developing countries
Usa
Drogenpolitik
Entwicklungsländer
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century
USA > Drogenpolitik > Entwicklungsländer
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Summary:Drugs and the American experience -- A terrible disease : metaphors, identity, and source control -- Viewing the drug subcultures of the golden trianglen : source control, COIN, modernization, and the Hmong in Thailand -- Development as drug control : the intersection of modernization, source control, and hegemony in Northern Thailand -- The shan proposal as the road not taken : the debate over alternative source control and the drugs-security link in Burma -- A quantum jump in destruction : herbicides and drug control in Mexico -- Conclusion : the faith in source control and looking outward
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:316 S. 24 cm
ISBN:9781606350591
1606350595