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19 - Drugs in the modern era

from Part IV - Ligaments of Globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
William B. McAllister
Edited by
J. R. McNeill  and
Kenneth Pomeranz
J. R. McNeill
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Kenneth Pomeranz
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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Summary

This chapter focuses on the period after 1500, during which the introduction of non-indigenous psychoactive substances across the globe caused significant changes in drug consumption, economic activity and world trade, societal functioning, behavioral norms, and political organization. One of the most important developments in modern drug history, the fashioning of an international control regime, developed in stages during the first third of the twentieth century. Responding to the array of heightened control efforts, illicit drug trafficking organizations enhanced their capacities during this period of increasing interdependency. The narco-industry rose to rank among the most impressive transnational business operations in the age of globalization. Having outlived the Cold War, the drug war contributed to terrorist coffers, fueled insurgencies around the world, disrupted state governance capabilities, facilitated other disfavored activities, and redistributed wealth to actors with little stake in the functionality of the international system.

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European universitiesphysical scienceEnlightenmentindustrial civilizationWorld Academy of Scienceworld civilizationpostcolonial studiesresearch institutions
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The Cambridge World History , pp. 444 - 466
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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