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Drugs, Oil, and War

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Drugs, Oil, and War

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Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. The result has been a staggering increase in global drug traffic. Thus, the author argues, the exercise of power by covert means, or parapolitics, often metastasizes into deep politics_the interplay of unacknowledged forces that spin out of the control of the original policy initiators. Scott contends that we must recognize that U.S. influence is grounded not just in military and economic superiority but also in so-called soft power. We need a 'soft politics' of persuasion and nonviolence, especially as America is embroiled in yet another disastrous intervention, this time in Iraq.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2003-03-04
Publication Date:
2003-03-04
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0742525228
ISBN13:
9780742525221
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
365 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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