The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean [Paperback]

This volume does four things. Firstly it examines the nexus between the illegal narcotics enterprise as a social phenomenon and political economy as a scholarly issue area. Secondly it explores the regional and global contexts of the political economy of illegal narcotics operations in the Caribbean. Thirdly it assesses some of the political economy connections and consequences of the enterprise in the region. Finally, it discusses some of the measures adopted to contend with the illegal drug challenge in the area.List of Tables List of Figures List of Acronyms Preface; Timothy M. Shaw Notes on the Contributors Map of the Caribbean Introduction: Drugs and the Political Economy; I.L.Griffith PART I: REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS Drugs and Political Economy in a Global Village; I.L.Griffith The Globalization of Finance: Role and Status of the Caribbean; H.A.Watson Drugs, Debt, and Structural Adjustment in the Caribbean; R.L.Bernal, W.J.Leslie & S.E.Lamar Ethnicity, the Nation-State, and Drug-Related Crime in the Emerging New World Order; J.F.Stack, Jr PART II: CONNECTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES Narco-criminality in the Caribbean; G.Brana-Shute Democracy and Political Economy in the Caribbean; C.E.Griffin Drugs and Post-Intervention Political Economy in Haiti and Panama; O.Perez 'Narcodemocracy' or Anti-drug Leviathan: Political Consequences of the Drug War in the Puerto Rican High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area; J.R.Beruff Cooperation and Conflict in the US-Caribbean Drug Connection; T.Munroe PART III: COPING STRATEGIES AND COUNTERMEASURES Drug Prevention and Rehabilitation in the Caribbean; S.M.Abrahams Anti-Drug Strategies in Central America; G.A.Peralta Multilateral Narcotics Interdiction Measures in the Caribbean; R.R.Beardsworth Regional and Global Action to Combat Drugs in the Caribbean; T.Wren Index

'a major contribution to the public discourse, both academic and non-academic, on the illegal drug trade, its world-wide ramifications, and related intl“.