Implementing Plan Colombia The Us Role Hearing Serial No 106 188 Committee On International Relations House 106th Congress 2

"One month ago, the President signed into law a $1.3 billion supplemental appropriation to carry out enhanced counternarcotics activities throughout Latin America. Of that amount, some $1.018 billion was designated as the U.S. contribution to what has become known as the Plan Colombia. Of all the issues we confront in our relations with our southern neighbors, none is more critically important to the stability of the hemisphere than the issue of illicit drug trade. The illicit drug trade in the Americas is pervasive. Drugs are eating away at the very fabric of American society and they pose a significant threat to the political and economic stability of the region. In short, I believe the drug trade can be described as a serious regional security threat"--Page 1.

The post-Cold War world has seen the emergence of new kinds of security threats. Whilst traditionally security threats were perceived of in terms of military threats against a state, non-traditional security threats are those that pose a threat to various internal competencies of the state and its identity both home and abroad. The European Union and the United States have identified Latin American cocaine trafficking as a security threat, but their policy responses to it have differed. This book examines the ways in which the EU and the US have conceptualized this threat. Furthermore, it explores the impact of cocaine trafficking on four state functions - economic, political, public order and diplomatic - in order to explain why it has become 'securitized'. Appealing to a variety of university courses, this book is especially relevant to security studies and European and US policy analysis, as well as criminology and sociology.

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