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Seeing drugs

Weimer, Daniel, 1971-

Seeing drugs modernization, counterinsurgency, and U.S. narcotics control in the Third World, 1969-1976 / [electronic resource] : Daniel Weimer. - Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 316 p. :) maps ; - New studies in U.S. foreign relations . - New studies in U.S. foreign relations. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-308) and index.

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.

9781612775333 1612775330




Drug control--Developing countries.
Drug control--United States.


United States--Foreign relations--20th century.


Electronic books.

HV5825 / .W3833 2011

363.45097309/047