Desecuritizing the 'war on drugs'

This chapter makes use of Colombian-US bilateral relations as a window to trace the evolution of the US-designed ‘war on drugs’, highlighting the role of securitization in the development of counternarcotics activities in Colombia and discussing the process through which the shortcomings of this pol...

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Fecha de publicación:: 2017

Institución:: Universidad del Rosario

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