
Killer high: a history of war in six drugs.
Author(s) -
Miroslav Plundrich
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mezinárodní vztahy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2570-9429
pISSN - 0323-1844
DOI - 10.32422/mv-cjir.1773
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , history , criminology , environmental ethics , political science , sociology , engineering , philosophy , embedded system
There is growing alarm over how drugs increasingly empower terrorists, insurgents, traffickers, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries.