Jonathan Marshall

Gebundenes Buch

The Lebanese Connection

Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic

Beschreibung

The Lebanese Connection uncovers for the first time the story of how Lebanon became one of the world's leading suppliers of illicit drugs, how its economy and political system were corrupted by drug profits, and how the drug trade contributed to the country's greatest catastrophe, its fifteen-year civil war from 1975 to 1990.

Autor

Jonathan V. Marshall is an independent scholar living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published four books, including Cocaine Politics (1991), with Peter Dale Scott, and Drug Wars (1991). A former journalist, he has also published hundreds of articles in magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780804781312
• ISBN-10: 0804781311
• Artikelnr.: 34950637