Political Economy of the Drug Industry

Menno Vellinga presently occupies the Bacardi Chair for Eminent Visiting Scholars at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.

• Part I. Introduction; 1. The Political Economy of the Drug Industry: Its Structure and Functioning - Menno Vellinga; Part II: The Drug Industry: Its Impact on Economy, Politics, and Society and the Drug Control PROBLEM in Sourea Countries; 2. Has Bolivia Won the War? Lessons from Plan Dignidad - Eduardo A. Gamarra; 3. Questionable Alliances in the War on Drugs: Peru and the United States - Hugo Cubieses; 4. Drugs in Colombia: From Illegal Economic Boom to Social Crisis - Francisco E. Thound; 5. Mexico: Drugs and Politics - Luis Astorga; 6. The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean: Problems without passports - Ivelaw L. Griffith; Part III. Trafficking and Money Laundering; 7. The Political Economy of Drug Smuggling - Peter Reuter; 8. Post-Fordist Cocainer Labor and Business Rotations among Colombian Dealers - Darnian Zutch; 9. Follow the Money: Anti-Money-Laundering Policies and Financial Investigations - Ernesto Savona; Part IV. The Drug Industry and the War on Drugs; 10. Perversely Harmful Effects of Counter-Narcotics Policy in the Andes; 11. Diverging Trends in Global Drug Policy - Martin Jelsma; 12. multilateral Drug Control - Sandeep Chawla; 13. The European Union and Drug Control Issues and Trends - Tim Bookhout van Solinge; Part V. Drugs, Transnational Crime, and International Security; 14. Globalization and Transnational Organized Crime: The Russian Mafia in Latin America and the Caribbean - Bruce Michael Bagley; 15. The War against Drugs and the Interests of Governments - Alain Labrousse; 16. Drugs and Transnational Organized Crime: Conceptualization and Solutions - Ybo Buruma; Part VI.; 17. The Drug Industry, Its Economic, Social, and Political Effects, and the Options of Intervention and Control - Menno Vellinga