WCFIA Book Launch (Zoom)
Date and Time
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Transforming the War on Drugs: Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions with Coeditor Annette Idler
This session is open to the public and will be recorded. Registration is required for this Zoom webinar.
Fifty years after US President Nixon declared the war on drugs, this “war” has failed to significantly reduce the scale or impact of illicit drug production and trafficking. Yet consensus on the way forward is missing from the international policy debate: some states have introduced national reforms; others continue to champion militarized approaches. We are at a crossroads. How to tackle the complex causes and consequences that this war is intended to address? Challenging conventional thinking in defense and security sectors, Transforming the War on Drugs constitutes the first comprehensive and systematic effort to theoretically, conceptually, and empirically investigate the effects of the international drug control regime’s war on drugs. The volume unpacks the dynamics behind illicit drug markets, the fluid motivations of “warriors,” and the evolving consequences for “victims” of this war—the lines between warriors and victims often being blurred.
This event is cosponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Speaker:
Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Director, Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, Oxford University.
Chair:
Melani Cammett, Center Director. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Discussant:
Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University.
Contact:
Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu
Erin Goodman
egoodman@wcfia.harvard.edu
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