My new book 'Terrorizing Colombia: America's Other War' will be coming out this November. I have been asked by Zed Books to think of names and email contacts of people that might like to receive some promotional material in relation to this book. In particular courses that could potentially make use of the book. The book would be suitable for the following kinds of courses: International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, American Studies, International History, US-Latin American Relations, International Security, Development Studies, Area Studies. I thought I would tap into the collective wisdom of LBO.
Here is the provisional blurb from the back of the book:
With the end of the Cold War, Colombia has become the third largest recipient of US military aid in the world, and the largest by far in Latin America. This aid is said to be for a US-backed war on drugs. After September 11th US policymakers have argued that Colombia has become the principal focus of US counter-terrorism efforts in Latin America. This book overturns these arguments and demonstrates that the US has long-supported a pervasive campaign of Colombian state violence directed against Colombia’s insurgents and a wide range of unarmed progressive social forces. The war on drugs and terrorism are in fact the latest pretexts for this policy. US military aid and training for Colombia is designed to maintain the pro-US Colombian state and continues to destroy threats to US economic interests whilst preserving strategic access to sources of non-Middle Eastern oil. Using extensive declassified documents, this book lifts the lid on US policy in Latin America both during and after the Cold War. It shows that the so-called war on drugs, and now the new “war on terror” in Colombia are actually part of a long-term Colombian “war of state terror” that predates the end of the Cold War with US policy contributing directly to the horrific human rights situation in Colombia today.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars on US foreign and security policy, US-Latin American relations, International Relations, policy advisers, non-governmental agencies and the layperson interested in US foreign policy, human rights and globalization.
If anybody can think of relevant people / organisations that may wish to receive some kind of promotional literature in relation to the book then please email me off-list,
many thanks,
Doug Stokes.