Global habit : the drug problem in a borderless world /

This book would be perfect supplementary reading for a nontraditional undergraduate international relations course. In it Stares, a Brookings scholar, presents an excellent overview of both the challenge and the rise and development of the global drug trade, and its market dynamics and operations. He then offers an agenda containing pragmatic goals and programs for responding to the problem in ways that go far beyond the simplistic legalization/prohibitionist debate. Most important, he does all this in a mere 122 pages of clear, concise text. Although experts may quibble over a small point of fact or interpretation, in the main this work is on target and provides an excellent set of sourcing notes for the reader wanting to go beyond this work of synthesis. This solid monograph belongs on the shelf alongside Drugs and Foreign Policy, ed. by Raphael Perl (1994), and the annual publication The Geopolitics of Drugs. Strongly recommended for undergraduate students and general audiences. P. A. Lupsha formerly, University of New Mexico