Seeing Drugs: Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976 1606350595, 9781606350591

A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug

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Seeing Drugs: Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976
1606350595, 9781606350591

Written by one of the pioneers in visual perception, Seeing provides an overview of the basics of sight, from the anatom

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Explores how United States drug policy overseas has been subordinated to larger foreign policy objectives and interests

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An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to

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For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Co

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Western counterinsurgency doctrine proposes that cultural intelligence is an important requirement for those forces oper

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An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to

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This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political

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