Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2015, United Nations Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

Автор: Pembleton Matthew R.
Название: Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America`s Global Drug War
ISBN: 1625343167 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625343161
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The story of America`s "War on Drugs" usually begins with Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan. In Containing Addiction, Matthew R. Pembleton argues that its origins instead lie in the years following World War II, when the Federal Bureau of Narcotics began to depict drug control as a paramilitary conflict and sent agents abroad to disrupt the flow of drugs to American shores.

Автор: Kingsberg Miriam
Название: Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History
ISBN: 0520276736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520276734
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s, during the interwar period, and in the 1950s. Each crisis provoked successively escalating crusades against opium and other drugs, in which moral entrepreneurs--bureaucrats, cultural producers, merchants, law enforcement, scientists, and doctors, among others--focused on drug use as a means of distinguishing between populations fit and unfit for self-rule. Moral Nation traces the instrumental role of ideologies about narcotics in the country's efforts to reestablish its legitimacy as a nation and empire.

As Kingsberg demonstrates, Japan's growing status as an Asian power and a moral nation expanded the notion of civilization from an exclusively Western value to a universal one. Scholars and students of Japanese history, Asian studies, world history, and global studies will gain an in-depth understanding of how Japan's experience with narcotics influenced global standards for sovereignty and shifted the aim of nation building, making it no longer a strictly political activity but also a moral obligation to society.