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The cost of containment: The Cold War and US international drug control at the UN, 1950–58
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This paper explored the influence of the Cold War on the formulation and application of US narcotic foreign policy at the United Nations and revealed how the ideologically rich and longstanding US international crusade against narcotics was often subordinated to the containment of communist expansionism.Abstract:
This article explores the influence of the Cold War on the formulation and application of US narcotic foreign policy at the UN. Examination of Washington's approach toward drug control in South East Asia and the Middle East reveals how the ideologically rich and longstanding US international crusade against narcotics was often subordinated to the containment of communist expansionism. The article demonstrates how both individual and systemic factors combined to deflect US attention away from the sources of illegal narcotics. This produced a confused and contradictory policy despite increasing fears during the 1950s that drugs from abroad posed a real threat to the American way of life.read more
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Bureaucratic Cold Warrior: Harry J. Anslinger and Illicit Narcotics Traffic
TL;DR: The anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 1950s through political manipulation, myth, and stereotype was intensified by U.S. politicians and government officials as discussed by the authors, and many liberal Democrats adopted similar, stridently anticommunist and anti-subversive rhetoric to silence critics of the New Deal.