Seeing drugs : modernization, counterinsurgency, and U.S. narcotics control in the Third World, 1969-1976 / Daniel Weimer.

Author/creator Weimer, Daniel, 1971-
Format Book
Publication InfoKent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxi, 316 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesNew studies in U.S. foreign relations
New studies in U.S. foreign relations. ^A635702
Contents Drugs and the American experience -- A terrible disease : metaphors, identity, and source control -- Viewing the drug subcultures of the golden trianglen : source control, COIN, modernization, and the Hmong in Thailand -- Development as drug control : the intersection of modernization, source control, and hegemony in Northern Thailand -- The shan proposal as the road not taken : the debate over alternative source control and the drugs-security link in Burma -- A quantum jump in destruction : herbicides and drug control in Mexico -- Conclusion : the faith in source control and looking outward.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 286-308) and index.
LCCN 2011000683
ISBN9781606350591
ISBN1606350595

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