Overview

The Latin American narcotics trade is an important national security issue for the United States because it is destabilizing important Latin American allies and creating serious social problems within the United States. Frustration with the inability to block the flow of cocaine, marijuana, and heroin from Latin America prompted passage of major national anti-drug laws in 1986 and 1988. Throughout the decade, United States narcotics policy has created serious friction between the United States and Latin America yet, according to Mabry, it essentially has failed in its goals. Nine experts on this subject deal with the major issues of United States narcotics policy and offer recommendations for future action. The history of the United States narcotics policy, the nature of the trade, the debate over the use of the United States military in interdiction efforts, the role of Congress in making policy, and the origin and implementation of narcotics policy, be it directed against a specific nation or against the entire region, are presented. In addition, the book also contains a List of Tables covering: Consumption of Drugs, and Columbian Trafficker's Investment Preferences. An extensive bibliography is included designed to give other scholars and those interested in this issue an excellent start for further research.

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?This edited volume is based on conference papers; a number of essays also appeared in the Journal of Interamerican and World Affairs (Summer-Fall, 1988). Since this is a fast-changing field, particularly as it relates to national security issues and to the role of the Department of Defense in drug policy, some of the chapters, especially those most directly related to national security, are dated by changing events. The March 1990 issue of Military Review provides more current updates. Authorities such as Bruce Bagley (on Colombia), Raphael Perl (on the role of Congress). Richard Craig (on Mexico), and Rensselaer Lee all have chapters in this book. Lee's important chapter is excerpted from his valuable book, The White Labyrinth (1989). The two chapters by Mexican authorities, who provide the Mexican perspective on US drug policy decisions, are important because this perspective is rarely found in English. This is a useful volume for undergraduate and graduate students who want a quick overview of the drug policy situation and the military and congressional considerations involved.?-Choice This edited volume is based on conference papers; a number of essays also appeared in the Journal of Interamerican and World Affairs (Summer-Fall, 1988). Since this is a fast-changing field, particularly as it relates to national security issues and to the role of the Department of Defense in drug policy, some of the chapters, especially those most directly related to national security, are dated by changing events. The March 1990 issue of Military Review provides more current updates. Authorities such as Bruce Bagley (on Colombia), Raphael Perl (on the role of Congress). Richard Craig (on Mexico), and Rensselaer Lee all have chapters in this book. Lee's important chapter is excerpted from his valuable book, The White Labyrinth (1989). The two chapters by Mexican authorities, who provide the Mexican perspective on US drug policy decisions, are important because this perspective is rarely found in English. This is a useful volume for undergraduate and graduate students who want a quick overview of the drug policy situation and the military and congressional considerations involved. -Choice

?This edited volume is based on conference papers; a number of essays also appeared in the Journal of Interamerican and World Affairs (Summer-Fall, 1988). Since this is a fast-changing field, particularly as it relates to national security issues and to the role of the Department of Defense in drug policy, some of the chapters, especially those most directly related to national security, are dated by changing events. The March 1990 issue of Military Review provides more current updates. Authorities such as Bruce Bagley (on Colombia), Raphael Perl (on the role of Congress). Richard Craig (on Mexico), and Rensselaer Lee all have chapters in this book. Lee's important chapter is excerpted from his valuable book, The White Labyrinth (1989). The two chapters by Mexican authorities, who provide the Mexican perspective on US drug policy decisions, are important because this perspective is rarely found in English. This is a useful volume for undergraduate and graduate students who want a quick overview of the drug policy situation and the military and congressional considerations involved.?-Choice

?This edited volume is based on conference papers; a number of essays also appeared in the Journal of Interamerican and World Affairs (Summer-Fall, 1988). Since this is a fast-changing field, particularly as it relates to national security issues and to the role of the Department of Defense in drug policy, some of the chapters, especially those most directly related to national security, are dated by changing events. The March 1990 issue of Military Review provides more current updates. Authorities such as Bruce Bagley (on Colombia), Raphael Perl (on the role of Congress). Richard Craig (on Mexico), and Rensselaer Lee all have chapters in this book. Lee's important chapter is excerpted from his valuable book, The White Labyrinth (1989). The two chapters by Mexican authorities, who provide the Mexican perspective on US drug policy decisions, are important because this perspective is rarely found in English. This is a useful volume for undergraduate and graduate students who want a quick overview of the drug policy situation and the military and congressional considerations involved.?-Choice ""This edited volume is based on conference papers; a number of essays also appeared in the Journal of Interamerican and World Affairs (Summer-Fall, 1988). Since this is a fast-changing field, particularly as it relates to national security issues and to the role of the Department of Defense in drug policy, some of the chapters, especially those most directly related to national security, are dated by changing events. The March 1990 issue of Military Review provides more current updates. Authorities such as Bruce Bagley (on Colombia), Raphael Perl (on the role of Congress). Richard Craig (on Mexico), and Rensselaer Lee all have chapters in this book. Lee's important chapter is excerpted from his valuable book, The White Labyrinth (1989). The two chapters by Mexican authorities, who provide the Mexican perspective on US drug policy decisions, are important because this perspective is rarely found in English. This is a useful volume for undergraduate and graduate students who want a quick overview of the drug policy situation and the military and congressional considerations involved.""-Choice

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DONALD J. MABRY is Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategic Studies at Mississippi State University. He has written Mexico's Accion Nacional: A Catholic Alternative to Revolution, The Mexican University and the State, and was coauthor of Neighbors--Mexico and the United States as well as numerous articles.

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