Bad Neighbor Policy
Subtitle: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403961372
Subjects: Central government policies; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Politics / Current Events; Latin America; General; United States; Political Science; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Narcotics, Control of; Government - Legislative Branch; International Relations - General; Political Science / Congress; Political Science / Law Enforcement; Political Science : International Relations - General; Social Science : General; Drug traffic; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Drug abuse; Drug control
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Description: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Counter The domestic phase of Washington's war on drugs has received considerable criticism over the years from a variety of individuals. Until recently, however, most critics have not stressed the damage that the international phase of the drug war has done to our Latin American neighbors. That lack of attention has begun to change and Ted Carpenter chronicles our disenchantment with the hemispheric drug war. Some prominent Latin American political leaders have finally dared to criticize Washington while at the same time, the U.S. government seems determined to perpetuate, if not intensify, the antidrug crusade. Spending on federal antidrug measures also continues to increase, and the tactics employed by drug war bureaucracy, both here and abroad, bring the inflammatory "drug war" metaphor closer to reality. Ending the prohibitionist system would produce numerous benefits for both Latin American societies and the United States. In a book deriving from his work at the CATO Institute, Ted Carpenter paints a picture of this ongoing fiasco.