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A Spanish journalist reveals what the Drug War really means: the danger it poses to the political stability of weak democracies, human rights and development and its environmental impact. In an important and desperately needed alternative view on the 'war on drugs, ' Boville explores in depth the relationship betweenthe United States and Latin America, explaining the political need of the U.S. government to develop a useful tool to extend American authority after the Cold War. She depicts Andean society and the cocaine culture, with all of the social, political, environmental and economic changes brought about by drug trafficking, and provides essential information on how the Drug War curren...
En este libro se explica por qué a fines del siglo XX y a principios del XXI el narcotráfico figura como un novedoso mecanismo de poder económico y político. La producción y el comercio de drogas tiene como propósito exportar sus mercancías al mercado estadunidense y al Primer Mundo. Siendo un elemento que permite comprender de manera más amplia la dinámica en la que se encuentran inmersas nuestras naciones. Analiza el destacado papel que tiene el narcotráfico latinoamericano en la vida económica, política y social de nuestros días. Tema que convierte a este libro, por su enfoque y tratamiento, en una obra imprescindible para comprender uno de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo.
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Over 3,100 total pages ... CONTENTS: The Nexus of Extremism and Trafficking: Scourge of the World or So Much Hype? Crossing Our Red Lines About Partner Engagement in Mexico Two Faces of Attrition: Analysis of a Mismatched Strategy against Mexican and Central American Drug Traffickers Combating Drug Trafficking: Variation in the United States' Military Cooperation with Colombia and Mexico Ungoverned Spaces in Mexico: Autodefensas, Failed States, and the War on Drugs in Michoacan U.S. SOUTHWEST BORDER SECURITY: AN OPERATIONAL APPROACH TWO WARS: OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS AND THE WAR ON DRUGS WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THE WAR ON DRUGS? AN ASSESSMENT OF MEXICO’S COUNTERNARCOTICS STRATEGY ...
First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features: * Authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. * Breadth: Today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. * International Coverage: The IBSS reviews scholarship published in over thirty languages, including publications from Eastern Europe and the developing world. * User friendly organization: all non-English titles are word sections. Extensive author, subject and place name indexes are provided in both English and French.
Coca, cocaína y Coca-Cola son las tres variables de un mismo conflicto que se desarrolla en los suburbios de Los Ángeles a Nueva York, en los megalópolis latinoamericanas y en las emergentes poblaciones crecidas con elboomde la cocaína. Estados Unidos, mediante la guerra de la cocaína, ha recuperado el control hegemónico sobre un continente en constante riesgo de revolución. Este libro distingue aquellos fenómenos político/sociales que por su envergadura, progresión y expansión van a ser en el próximo milenio nuestros mayores generadores de injustica, pobreza y contaminación; explica cómo la actual política internacional contra las drogas estimula el narcotráfico, aumenta el ...
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