| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations. |
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monochrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Anthropology of policy
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Anthropology of policy (Stanford, Calif.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index. |
| Summary |
"In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the assistance, however, was military aid, at a time when the Colombian security forces were linked to abusive, drug-trafficking paramilitary forces. Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats examines the U.S. policymaking process in the design, implementation, and consequences of Plan Colombia, as the aid package came to be known. Winifred Tate explores the rhetoric and practice of foreign policy by the U.S. State Department, the Pentagon, Congress, and the U.S. military Southern Command. Tate's ethnography uncovers how policymakers' utopian visions and emotional entanglements play a profound role in their efforts to orchestrate and impose social transformation abroad. She argues that U.S. officials' zero tolerance for illegal drugs provided the ideological architecture for the subsequent militarization of domestic drug policy abroad. The U.S. also ignored Colombian state complicity with paramilitary brutality, presenting them as evidence of an absent state and the authentic expression of a frustrated middle class. For rural residents of Colombia living under paramilitary dominion, these denials circulated as a form of state terror. Tate's analysis examines how oppositional activists and the policy's targets--civilians and local state officials in southern Colombia--attempted to shape aid design and delivery, revealing the process and effects of human rights policymaking."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Anthropology of policy -- part 1. Militarization, Human Rights, and the U.S. War on Drugs. Domestic drug policy goes to war ; Human rights policymaking and military aid -- part 2. Putumayo on the Eve of Plan Colombia. Paramilitary proxies ; Living under many laws -- part 3. What We Talk About When We Talk About Plan Colombia. Origin stories -- part 4. Advocacy and Inevitability. Competing solidarities ; Putumayan policy claims -- Conclusion: Plan Colombia, Putumayo, and the policymaking imagination. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Colombia.
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United States. |
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International relations. |
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Colombia. |
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Colombia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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Drug control -- United States.
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Drug control. |
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Drug control -- Colombia.
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Military assistance, American -- Colombia.
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Military assistance, American. |
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Counterinsurgency -- Colombia.
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Counterinsurgency. |
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Paramilitary forces -- Colombia.
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Paramilitary forces. |
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Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1974-
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Politics and government. |
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1974- |
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Since 1974 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tate, Winifred. Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats : U.S. Policymaking in Colombia. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, ©2015 9780804792011 9780804795661 (DLC) 2015004650 (OCoLC)895301608 |
| ISBN |
9780804795678 (electronic book) |
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0804795673 (electronic book) |
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9780804795791 (electronic) |
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0804795797 (electronic) |
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9780804792011 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804792011 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804795661 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0804795665 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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