Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century

This is the first comprehensive historical account of the evolution of the global drugs control regime. It analyzes how the rules and regulations that encompass the drug question came to be framed and examines the historical aspects of the issue.

Drug Diplomacy is the first comprehensive historical account of the evolution of the global drugs control regime. The book analyzes how the rules and regulations that encompass the drug question came to be framed. By examining the international historical aspects of the issue, the author addresses the many questions surrounding this global problem.
Including coverage of substances from heroin and cocaine to morphine, stimulants, hallucinogens and alcohol, Drug Diplomacy addresses:

• the historical development of drug laws, drug-control institutions, and attitudes about drugs
• international control negotiations and the relationship between the drug question and issues such as trade policy, national security concerns, the Cold War and medical considerations

• the reasons why the goal to eliminate drug abuse has been so hard to accomplish.

  'McAllister brings a wry humour to his subject. The book is indispensable to understanding the drug controls and policing of the world in 2000.' - Richard Davenport-Hines, London Review of Books'McAllister's book is a groundbreaking and welcome addition to literature on the drug trade and its regulation ... required reading for scholars and policy makers interested in the drug issue.' - Millennium

  Autorentext
  William B. McAllister is Lecturer in History and Faculty Consultant at the Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia.

  Inhalt
  Introduction PART I Setting the stage 1 Drugs through the ages to 1920 PART II Establishing the system 2 Laying the foundation191925 3 Completing the edifice192531 PART III Work in progress 4 Against the tide193139 5 Preservation, perseverance, promise193946 6 Trouble in paradise194553 7 The long march to the Single Convention195361 PART IV The regime challenged 8 Crucible196173 9 Crosscurrents19722000