International Handbook on Drug Control

This international handbook is the first to analyze the status of drug control efforts around the world in so comprehensive a manner with up-to-date information. A series of experts provide a systematic overview of this major world problem in the 1980s and the 1990s, point to 10 major trends in current developments and to 3 probable shocks in the immediate future, and assess targets and networks for combatting the drug trade in the next decade. This handbook is a convenient reference for academicians, professionals, policymakers, and all who are concerned with this scourge on modern-day society.

This valuable survey of the major consumers and suppliers of drugs and of national and international responses and enforcement measures opens with an introduction that gives an overview of efforts to control the international drug problem. Money laundering and asset forfeiture problems and policies are described in some detail. Country and regional studies follow with analyses about the history and structure of the industry/trade, governmental and societal responses, international controls and networks. The work of the United Nations and regional organizations is summarized as well. Appendixes offer comparative data about drug consumption, production, and trade and about international legislature's legal efforts to control the drug trade. Bibliographies at the ends of chapters and an essay at the end of the book offer suggestions for further research. A full index makes the reference an accessible one for researchers with different needs and perspectives.

Sommario

Preface
Introduction and Problems of International Control
Introduction: Controlling the International Drug Problem by Scott B. MacDonald and Bruce Zagaris
Money Laundering: An International Control Problem by Bruce Zagaris
The Emerging Regime of Asset Forfeiture by Elizabeth Kingma
Country and Regional Studies: The Americas
The United States by Raphael Francis Perl
Canada by David L. Crum
Bolivia by Eduardo Gamarra
Brazil by Luiza de Matos
Caribbean Offshore Financial Centers: The Bahamas, the British Dependencies, and the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba by Scott B. MacDonald and Bruce Zagaris
Colombia by Scott B. MacDonald
Mexico by Bruce Zagaris and Scott B. MacDonald
Panama by Laura VÁsquez and Barbara Jahansoozi
Peru by Laura VÁsquez
The Southern Cone by Scott B. MacDonald
Country and Regional Studies: Europe
Western Europe and the European Community by Bruce Zagaris
The Netherlands by Govert Frank Van de Wijngaart and Sarah Barber
Sweden by Sarah Barber
The United Kingdom by Loren Cain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Rensselaer W. Lee III
Country and Regional Studies: Asia and the Middle East
Afghanistan by Scott B. MacDonald
The Islamic Republic of Iran by Scott B. MacDonald and Barbara Jahansoozi
Pakistan by Sue Hardesty
Turkey and India by Carolyn West
The Golden Triangle: Burma, Laos and Thailand by Debra Liang
Singapore by Scott B. MacDonald
International Organizations and Drug Control Policy
The Organization of American States by Michael Dziedzic
United Nations' Activities in International Drug Control by Robin Rolley
Appendix: Tables
Bibliographic Essay
Index
Appendixes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Info autore

SCOTT B. MACDONALD is Chief International Economist at Maryland National Corporation International Bank. Prior to that, he was the senior international economist at American Security Bank in Washington, D.C. (1986-87) and the unit manager for international and specialized industries in the loan administration at Connecticut National Bank in Hartford, Connecticut (1985-86). Dr. MacDonald has written over 100 articles, appearing in such publications as The Times of the Americas, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, and Caribbean Review. He is also the author of Trinidad and Tobago: Democracy and Development in the Caribbean (1986) and coauthor of The Caribbean After Grenada: Revolution, Conflict and Democarcy (forthcoming 1988). Currently, he is working on a fourth book, The Caribbean Basin Sugar Crisis: A Descent into Hell.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Scott B. MacDonald (Editore), Bruce Zagaris (Editore)
• Editore: Greenwood
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.07.1992
• EAN: 9780313273759
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27375-9
• Pagine: 466
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Peso: 902 g
• Categoria: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Enciclopedie, lessici