US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry

A book by Cornelius Friesendorf examines the geographic displacement of the global cocaine and heroin industry as a side effect of United States foreign policy. It develops and applies a causal mechanism to analyze US anti-drug initiatives across different times and regions. The findings suggest American foreign policy has been a major driver behind the global spread of the illicit drug industry.

Use Cases

• Analyzing causal mechanisms of industry displacement based on the described policy analysis framework.
• Studying the relationship between foreign policy coercion and illicit drug trade patterns as described in the book.
• Modeling the geographic spread of drug production based on the historical analysis of US anti-drug initiatives.

Strengths

• Authored by a named researcher, Cornelius Friesendorf, providing a clear point of origin.
• Analysis is applied across multiple times and regions, suggesting a comparative scope.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data format and structure are unknown, requiring manual inspection.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Cornelius Friesendorf

Collection Method

Likely involves qualitative analysis and case studies of US foreign policy and drug trade data.

Geography

Global, with analysis of various regions impacted by US foreign policy.