The Politics Of Heroin In Southeast Asia
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Edition: First paperback ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In one of the most explosive works of investigative journalism of the twentieth century, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia tears back the veil of political secrecy to expose the CIA's deep and systemic complicity in the global heroin trade. Alfred W. McCoy, aided by co-researchers Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II, chronicles the shocking network of drug trafficking that flourished across the Golden Triangle — Burma, Laos, and Thailand — tracing the opium trail from remote highland poppy fields to the streets of American cities, and implicating powerful state actors along the way. McCoy argues with meticulous, ground-level research that American foreign policy in Southeast Asia was not merely indifferent to the drug trade, but actively enabled it as a tool of Cold War strategy. A landmark work in both political history and investigative non-fiction, the book presents a damning portrait of institutional corruption at the highest levels of government, written with the precision of an academic and the urgency of a whistleblower. McCoy's prose is unflinching and methodical, grounding sweeping geopolitical claims in firsthand testimony, field research, and declassified documentation. Decades after its initial publication — and despite fierce attempts at suppression — the text remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the shadow economies that underpin modern geopolitics. Who, ultimately, profits from war?
Author: Alfred W. Mccoy
Format: Paperback
Published: 1972, Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Row, Publishers
Genre: Politics & law
Edition: First paperback ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In one of the most explosive works of investigative journalism of the twentieth century, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia tears back the veil of political secrecy to expose the CIA's deep and systemic complicity in the global heroin trade. Alfred W. McCoy, aided by co-researchers Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II, chronicles the shocking network of drug trafficking that flourished across the Golden Triangle — Burma, Laos, and Thailand — tracing the opium trail from remote highland poppy fields to the streets of American cities, and implicating powerful state actors along the way. McCoy argues with meticulous, ground-level research that American foreign policy in Southeast Asia was not merely indifferent to the drug trade, but actively enabled it as a tool of Cold War strategy. A landmark work in both political history and investigative non-fiction, the book presents a damning portrait of institutional corruption at the highest levels of government, written with the precision of an academic and the urgency of a whistleblower. McCoy's prose is unflinching and methodical, grounding sweeping geopolitical claims in firsthand testimony, field research, and declassified documentation. Decades after its initial publication — and despite fierce attempts at suppression — the text remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the shadow economies that underpin modern geopolitics. Who, ultimately, profits from war?