| Description |
xix, 227 pages ; 24 cm |
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War and peace library |
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War and peace library.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Deep Politics of U.S. Interventions -- Pt. I. Afghanistan, Heroin, and Oil (2002) -- 1. Drugs and Oil in U.S. Asian Wars: From Indochina to Afghanistan -- 2. Indochina, Colombia, and Afghanistan: Emerging Patterns -- 3. The Origins of the Drug Proxy Strategy: The KMT, Burma, and U.S. Organized Crime -- Pt. II. Colombia, Cocaine, and Oil (2001) -- 4. The United States and Oil in Colombia -- 5. The CIA and Drug Traffickers in Colombia -- 6. The Need to Disengage from Colombia -- Pt. III. Indochina, Opium, and Oil (from The War Conspiracy, 1972) -- 7. Overview: Public, Private, and Covert Political Power -- 8. CAT/Air America, 1950-1970 -- 9. Laos, 1959-1970 -- 10. Cambodia and Oil, 1970 -- 11. Opium, the China Lobby, and the CIA -- A Deep Politics Bibliography |
| Summary |
Publisher's description: Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. This strategy was originally developed in the late 1940s to contain communist China; it has since been used to secure control over foreign petroleum resources. The result has been a staggering increase in the global drug traffic and the mafias associated with it-a problem that will worsen until there is a change in policy. Scott argues that covert operations almost always outlast the specific purpose for which they were designed. Instead, they grow and become part of a hostile constellation of forces. The author terms this phenomenon parapolitics-the exercise of power by covert means-which tends to metastasize into deep politics-the interplay of unacknowledged forces that spin out of the control of the original policy initiators. We must recognize that U.S. influence is grounded not just in military and economic superiority, Scott contends, but also in so-called soft power. We need a "soft politics" of persuasion and nonviolence, especially as America is embroiled in yet another disastrous intervention, this time in Iraq |
| Analysis |
United States |
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Intelligence services |
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Foreign policy |
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Central Intelligence Agency |
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Drug trafficking |
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Petroleum products |
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Power (International relations) |
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Afghanistan |
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Colombia |
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Cambodia |
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Indochina |
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International comparisons |
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Overseas item |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 10, 2013) |
| Subject |
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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Drug control -- Political aspects.
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Drug control.
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Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Drug traffic -- History -- 20th century.
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089
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United States -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058 -- Indochina.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065716
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Indochina -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123954
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Colombia.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100045
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Colombia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114736
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100158
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Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114096
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| LC no. |
2002155383 |
| ISBN |
074252521X |
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0742525228 |
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