ABSTRACT
This book set out to explain the link between the displacement of the illicit drug industry and US international drug policies. The first chapter described drug problems and drug policies, showing that the thrust of US foreign drug policy has been on supply-side eradication and interdiction. It argued that drug policy scholars do not pay enough attention to displacement and that IR scholars neglect side effects of foreign policy. To alleviate these shortcomings, a causal mechanism was developed that served as a heuristic explanation of displacement and that was applied to three empirical cases.
