164 Pages
43 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
43 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
43 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations comprise an indigenous, globally competitive, multinational industry. Their business operations are deeply ingrained within the economic and political systems of countries throughout the region. While criminal enterprises operate in a more complex and uncertain setting than licit firms, their competitive success is determined in fundamentally similar ways. Models developed by geographers to explain the spatial behavior of licit multinational firms are profitably applied here to the operations of drug trafficking operations.
1. Through the Lens of Economic Geography: Cocaine in Space and Place 2. Globalization and Competitive Advantage in the International Drug Trade 3. Drug Trafficking Organizations: Strategy and Organization 4. Production Chain of Cocaine HCl 5. Case Study: Columbia 6. Case Study: Bolivia 7. International Trans-shipment of Cocaine 8. Case Study: Mexico 9. Marketing Cocaine in the U.S. 10. Policy Implications 11. Conclusions: Through a Glass, Darkly. References
Biography
Christian M. Allen teaches at the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia.
"Overall, I would rate An Industrial Geography of Cocaine as a worthwhile read. To those already well versed in organized drug trafficking, it will not bring to light any new information, but it has some interesting historical information and can be read as an interesting synopsis. I certainly see it as a useful read in a seminar for students who are coming for the first time to consider the criminology of drug trafficking. Allen is straightforward in his presentation of materials and open and direct in his criticisms of policy." - Tom Mieczkowski, International Criminal Justice Review
