Graduation Year
2019
Date of Submission
12-2018
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Government
Second Department
International Relations
Reader 1
Jennifer Taw
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
2018 Lindsay B Burton
OCLC Record Number
1088420502
Abstract
This thesis investigates how and why U.S. policies and agencies are ill-equipped to respond to narco-terrorism and offers some policy recommendations for remedying that. Narco-terrorism is the merging of terrorism and drug trafficking. Terrorist organizations and narcotics traffickers each have much to offer the other; there is potential for symbiosis in the form of cooperation and even hybridization. Examination of the dynamics between terrorist organizations and drug traffickers, combined with an evaluation of the US responses to narcoterrorism in Colombia and Afghanistan, makes it clear that current US policy responses fail to recognize narcoterrorism as a unique challenge, and instead attempt to deal separately with terrorism and drug trafficking. This approach has the potential to actually worsen both situations. The US needs a narcoterrorism strategy and institutions in place to implement it.
Recommended Citation
Burton, Lindsay, "The Convergence of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs: A Counter-Narcoterrorism Approach as a Policy Response" (2019). CMC Senior Theses. 2085.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2085
Included in
American Politics Commons, Comparative Politics Commons, Defense and Security Studies Commons, International Relations Commons, Military, War, and Peace Commons, National Security Law Commons, Other International and Area Studies Commons, Peace and Conflict Studies Commons, Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Commons, Public Policy Commons, Terrorism Studies Commons
