Argues that a global system of uneven capitalist development has given rise to a crisis of the underclass, which is international in scope. The entrenchment of a lumpenproletariat alienated for legitimate and socially responsible forms of employment, empowerment, and self-identity has made a sizeable population vulnerable to being recruited into the ranks of the underground drug economy.
Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
4 p., The growing violence and instability in Mexico and the Caribbean will clearly demand greater attention from the United States in the future. This conference, held at the University of Pittsburgh campus on October 28-30, 2009 offered an important opportunity to assess these threats, and to consider what can be done to counter them. Includes chapter "Perspectives on the Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
273 p., Contents: Drugs and political economy in a global village / Ivelaw L. Griffith -- The globalization of finance: role and status of the Caribbean / Hilbourne A. Watson -- Debt, drugs and structural adjustment in the Caribbean / Richard L. Bernal, Winsome J. Leslie and Stephen E. Lamar -- Ethnicity, the nation-state and drug-related crime in the emerging new world order / John F. Stack, Jr. -- Narco-criminality in the Caribbean / Gary Brana-Shute -- Democracy and political economy in the Caribbean / Clifford E. Griffin -- Drugs and post-intervention political economy in Haiti and Panama / Orlando J. Pérez -- 'Narcodemocracy' or anti-drug Leviathan: political consequences of the drug war in the Puerto Rican high-intensity drug-trafficking area / Jorge Rodríguez Beruff -- Cooperation and conflict in the US-Caribbean drug connection / Trevor Munroe -- Drug prevention and rehabilitation in the Caribbean / Sonita Morin Abrahams -- Fighting the dragon: the anti-drug strategy in Central America / Gabriel Aguilera Peralta -- Multilateral narcotics interdiction measures in the Caribbean / Richard R. Beardsworth -- Regional and global action to combat drugs in the Caribbean / Tim Wren.
Bahamas. Commission of Inquiry Appointed to Inquire into the Illegal Use of the Bahamas for the Transshipment of Dangerous Drugs Destined for the United States of America. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
Nassau, Bahamas: The Commission
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
