Awards

• Winner of Colonel John J. Madigan Award for Outstanding Faculty Writing 2017
• Winner of Colonel John J. Madigan Award for Outstanding Faculty Writing 2017

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Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a certain security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. This book provides an understanding of how an array ...

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An intellectual tour de force related to drug trafficking as a prominent feature of deviant globalization and durable disorder and its analysis of the international implications of the new 'drug-security' nexus that has emerged. The work exposes the inadequacy of traditionalist perceptions related to the state centric security environment in an age when the number of narco and fragile states are ever growing and violent non-state actors and organized crime groups are ascendant. -- Robert J. Bunker, Claremont Graduate University

An intellectual tour de force related to drug trafficking as a prominent feature of deviant globalization and durable disorder and its analysis of the international implications of the new 'drug-security' nexus that has emerged. The work exposes the inadequacy of traditionalist perceptions related to the state centric security environment in an age when the number of narco and fragile states are ever growing and violent non-state actors and organized crime groups are ascendant. -- Robert J. Bunker, Claremont Graduate University Focusing on the convoluted but powerful intersection between drug trafficking and international security, Paul Kan emphasizes the changed nature of security and elucidates the role of drug trafficking in creating insecurity and disorder. Informative, perceptive, and far-reaching, this volume is not for the faint-hearted: it will greatly appeal to some and irritate and provoke others. Is drug trafficking no more than a hyped up threat or is it a genuine and enduring security challenge? Read this book and decide for yourself. -- Phil Williams, Wesley W. Posvar Professor of International Security in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, and Director of the University's Ridgway Center for International Security Studies

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Paul Rexton Kan is professor of National Security Studies and former Henry L. Stimson Chair of Military Studies at the US Army War College. In February 2011, he served as the Senior Visiting Counternarcotics Adviser at NATO Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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