Drugs, Oil, and War

The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina

AvPeter Dale Scott

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-03-04
Mått:154 x 231 x 18 mm
Vikt:374 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:War and Peace Library
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742525221

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Peter Dale Scott was born in 1929 in Montreal, Canada. A former Canadian diplomat and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, he is both a poet and an author of political analysis. His chief prose books include Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, The War Conspiracy, Cocaine Politics, and The Iran-Contra Connection (the last two in collaboration). His most recent book of poetry is Minding the Darkness, completing his trilogy Seculum. In 2002 he was awarded the Lannan Poetry Award. He is married to Ronna Kabatznick, and has three children by his former wife, Maylie Marshall.

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Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and current English professor, analyzes an important aspect of U.S. foreign policy. Scott does point to sources and relationships that are often ignored by works relying on standard archival materials.

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Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Introduction: The Deep Politics of U.S. InterventionsPart 3 Part I: Afghanistan, Heroin, and Oil (2002)Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Drugs and Oil in U.S. Asian Wars: From Indochina to AfghanistanChapter 5 Chapter 2: Indochina, Colombia, and Afghanistan: Emerging PatternsChapter 6 Chapter 3: The Origins of the Drug Proxy Strategy: The KMT, Burma, and U.S. Organized CrimePart 7 Part II: Colombia, Cocaine, and Oil (2001)Chapter 8 Chapter 4: The United States and Oil in ColombiaChapter 9 Chapter 5: The CIA and Drug Traffickers in ColombiaChapter 10 Chapter 6: The Need to Disengage from ColombiaPart 11 Part III: Indochina, Opium, and Oil (From The War Conspiracy, 1972)Chapter 12 Chapter 7: Overview: Public, Private, and Covert Political PowerChapter 13 Chapter 8: CAT/Air America, 1950-1970Chapter 14 Chapter 9: Laos, 1959-1970Chapter 15 Chapter 10: Cambodia and Oil, 1970Chapter 16 Chapter 11: Opium, the China Lobby, and the CIA