Policing on Drugs The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000
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Aileen Teague is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She is a former Marine Corps officer and a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Time, among other outlets.Policing on Drugs is an impressively researched and powerfully relevant history of how the United States and Mexico built a militarized drug enforcement campaign whose failures are well known but whose origins are either forgotten or poorly understood. Aileen Teague shows that this was not simply imposed by Washington but served distinct interests on both sides of the border
even as it persistently failed and generated counterproductive consequences. The book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the origins of today's fully militarized drug war in Mexico.Peter Andreas, author of Border Games: The Politics of Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
Aileen Teague's outstanding exploration of the relationship between Mexican and American efforts to control the War on Drugs provides revealing research from both countries' archives, focusing on a wide range of actors, including the military, intelligence, police, diplomats, politicians, and opposition movements in Mexico. By interweaving Mexico's dirty war on leftists' groups in her analysis of strategies against drug traffickers, readers' will deepen their understanding of the complexities of domestic and international collaboration.
Roderic Ai Camp, Philip McKenna Professor Emeritus of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College
Policing on Drugs offers a much-needed historical perspective on the militarization of drug enforcement. Mexico and the US influenced each other through their collaboration, confrontations and shared, stubborn policy mistakes. This is a thorough, clear, and at times surprising reconstruction of the entrenched policy failure that today shapes both countries' societies and politics.
Pablo Piccato, author of A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
Even after the War on Drugs was declared a failure, the idea that violence was collateral damage remained untouched. Aileen Teague's carefully crafted Policing on Drugs disabuses us of this conviction. Disentangling the threads of US and Mexican governments' political interests and social dilemmas, Teague reveals that at the core of the militarized drug control paradigm instituted in the last quarter of the 20th century lays a political project of policing dissent and racial and ethnic 'others.' With untapped governmental documents, including intelligence sources, and a clear narrative, Teague confirms what many of us suspected: the War on Drugs was not about drugs, and its violence was not an undesirable byproduct but its most intentional weapon of choice.
Lina Britto, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University, and author of Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
Policing on Drugs is a fascinating account of just how ineffective the militarization of counterdrug operations in Mexico has been. This is a significant contribution to our understanding of U.S.-Mexican relations and the war on drugs, and it illustrates what can happen when policy demands unleash systemic violence that is as counterproductive as it is morally and socially corrosive.
David Fitzgerald, senior lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork, Ireland, author Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine from Vietnam to Iraq and Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror
Alieen Teague's Policing on Drugs is a valuable contribution to the vibrant historical scholarship on drugs, policing, militarization, and U.S.-Mexican relations in the late twentieth century. Briskly written and convincingly argued, her work examines and explains the convergent and divergent assumptions, attitudes, and actions that propelled the intensification of counternarcotics campaigns in Mexico. Rooted in impressive archival work in the United States and Mexico, Policing on Drugs offers an illustrative study of the modern drug war and its resonance today.
Kyle Burke, assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida, author of Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War