Archive for Ivan Eland
The Politics of Cocaine: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America
William L. Marcy has written an extensive and cogent historical critique of the U.S. war against the cocaine trade originating in Latin America. As the title indicates, he shows how this counterproductive war has led to a thriving drug industry in the Americas. Marcy criticizes U.S. policy for conflating the drug war and the Cold [...]
25May2011 | Ivan Eland | 1 comment | ContinuedWorld Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era
Harvard professor Stanley Hoffmann is an unbridled interventionist. Although he decries any American role as the global policeman, he proposes intervening for so many purposes and under so many circumstances that chevrons begin to form on his shoulders. Hoffmann rejects the argument that the United States should withdraw from entanglements and international commitments. Although he [...]
1Dec1999 | Ivan Eland | 0 comments | Continued-
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