The Latin American Narcotics Trade and U.S. National Security

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Foreword ix
• I - Background 1
• 1 - Narcotics and National Security 3
• 2 - Nativism, Cultural Conflict, Drug Control: United States and Latin American Antinarcotics Diplomacy Through 1965 11
• II - Contemporary U.S. Narcotics Policy 25
• 3 - Mexican Narcotics Traffic: Binational Security Implications 27
• 4 - The New Hundred Years War?: U.S. National Security and the War on Drugs in Latin America 43
• Conclusion 55
• 5 - The Cocaine Dilemma in South America 59
• III - The Military, Congress, and the War on Drugs 73
• 6 - The Role of the U.S. Military in the War on Drugs 75
• Conclusion 86
• 7 - International Narcopolicy and the Role of the U.S. Congress 89
• Conclusion 102
• IV - The View from Mexico 103
• 8 - Rethinking Hemispheric Antinarcotics Strategy and Security 105
• 9 - Narcotics as a Destabilizing Force for Source Countries and Non-Source Countries 123
• V - Policy Options 137
• 10 - Antinarcotics Strategies and U.S.-Latin American Relations 139
• 11 - Concluding Observations and Policy Recommendations 151
• Notes 163
• Bibliography 185
• Index 197
• About the Contributors 205

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