Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs

by Vanda Felbab-Brown

Book Overview

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Most policymakers see counterinsurgency and counternarcotics policy as two sides of the same coin. Stop the flow of drug money, the logic goes, and the insurgency will wither away. But the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrongheaded, as Vanda Felbab-Brown argues in Shooting Up.

Counternarcotics campaigns, particularly those focused on eradication, typically fail to bankrupt belligerent groups that rely on the drug trade for financing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815734069
• ISBN13: 9780815734062
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 273 Pages