Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States write by Nigel Inkster. This book was released on 2020-12-18. Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Adelphi argues that the present enforcement regime is not only failing to win theWar on Drugs; it is also igniting and prolonging that conflict on the streets of producer and transit countries.
Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America
Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America write by Andreas E. Feldmann. This book was released on 2023-08-10. Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Element investigates the relationship between the narcotics industry and politics and assesses how it influences domestic political dynamics, including economic development prospects in Latin America. It argues that links between criminal organizations, politicians, and state agents give rise to criminal politics (i.e., the interrelated activity of politicians, organized crime actors, and state agents in pursuing their respective agendas and goals). Criminal politics is upending how countries function politically and, consequently, impacting the prospects and nature of their social and economic development. The Element claims that diverse manifestations of criminal politics arise depending on how different phases of drug-trafficking activity (e.g., production, trafficking, and money laundering) interact with countries' distinct politico-institutional endowments. The argument is probed through the systematic examination of four cases that have received scant attention in the specialized literature: Chile,Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Iraq – From War to a New Authoritarianism
Iraq – From War to a New Authoritarianism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iraq – From War to a New Authoritarianism write by Toby Dodge. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Iraq – From War to a New Authoritarianism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Iraq recovered its full sovereignty at the end of 2011, with the departure of all US military forces. The 2003 invasion was undertaken to dismantle a regime that had long threatened its own population and regional peace, as well as to establish a stable, democratic state in the heart of the Middle East. This Adelphi looks at the legacy of that intervention and subsequent state-building efforts. It analyses the evolution of the insurgency, the descent into full-scale civil war and the implementation of the surge as a counterinsurgency strategy. It goes on to examine US and Iraqi efforts to reconstruct the states military and civilian capacity. By developing a clear understanding of the current situation in Iraq, this book seeks to answer three questions that are central to the countrys future. Will it continue to suffer high levels of violence or even slide back into a vicious civil war? Will Iraq continue on a democratic path, as exemplified by the three competitive national elections held since 2005? And does the new Iraq pose a threat to its neighbours?
Chasing the Scream
Chasing the Scream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chasing the Scream write by Johann Hari. This book was released on 2015-01-20. Chasing the Scream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through the theater of this war--to find out how it began, how it has affected people around the world, and how we can move beyond it. Chasing the Scream is fueled by dramatic personal stories of the people he meets along the way: A transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed her mother, and a mother in Mexico who spent years tracking her daughter's murderer across the desert. A child smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust who helped unlock the scientific secrets of addiction. A doctor who pushed the decriminalization in Portugal of all drugs - from cannabis to crack. The title itself comes from a formative story of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, sent as a boy to the pharmacy for a neighbor screaming in withdrawal -- an experience which led him to fear drugs without regard to context. Always we come back to the front lines in the U.S., where we instigated the war and exported it around the globe, but where change is also coming. Powerful, propulsive, and persuasive, Chasing the Scream is the page-turning story of a century-long mistake, which shows us the way to a more humane future"--
Dignity and Justice
Dignity and Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dignity and Justice write by Dakin-Grimm, Linda. This book was released on 2020-09-16. Dignity and Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through stories of real children and families, Dignity and Justice explores the issue of migration to the southern border of the United States and why, including the historical, social, legal and political dynamics. It highlights the almost insurmountable legal hurdles they face if they actually reach their destination and defines and encourages a Catholic response to this heartbreaking situation.
