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Snow Job

By Riley, Kevin Jack

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Snow Job

By Riley, Kevin Jack

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In Snow Job? Kevin Jack Riley examines source country control policies - policies intended to control the production and export of cocaine from Latin America - and their limitations. Part I draws together drug use, drug production, and drug control policies in an analytic framework. It goes on to examine the recent history of U.S. drug control policies, source country control policies, the ways in which cocaine prices affect cocaine use, how cocaine is made, and the vulnerable points in its production. Part II examines the economic effects that production and controls exert on the sources of cocaine - Bolivia and Peru - and probes the Colombian drug lord connection. Part III prescribes an appropriate path for source country cocaine policies and examines their implications for two other widely smuggled drugs, heroin and marijuana. Riley disagrees with analysts who believe that source country control policies can lead to permanent victory in the war against cocaine, because of the potentially high costs associated with implementing source country control policies on a large scale. He suggests a better strategy would be one that recognizes the severe limits facing interdiction, eradication, and other source country policies, and instead focuses on directing source country resources where they will be most useful. This necessitates defining a regional strategy that elevates political stability and institution building, and demotes traditional counternarcotics objectives. Snow Job? offers original thinking and practical approaches to a multidimensional world problem and will be of interest to policymakers, political scientists, sociologists, and law enforcement officials.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
1996-04-01
Publication Date:
1996-01-31
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1560002425
ISBN13:
9781560002420
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
610 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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