He says that post-9/11, this policy has become entrenched in national security rhetoric, and also in action. He links this entrenchment of this thought to action taken against al-Qaeda, and (in articles by him, subsequent to his book) also to the attack on Iraq.
In short, Naylor's book argues that the system currently in place to deal with "cartels" and the illegal drug trade are wholly inadequate, and are leading to an infringement of civil liberties, certainly for Americans, but also for people the world over, who are being affected by the U.S.' uncompromising stance against the international drug trade.
An article by Bagley (2003) entitled, "Globalization, weak states and international organized crime" reinforces some of Naylor's arguments. He argues that weak states are the best places for organized crime to flourish, using the cases of Russia and Colombia. In Colombia, in particular, he singles out the lack of transparency in the banking system as a factor in the rise of organized crime there.
He disagrees with Naylor on the influence of globalization on the international trade in drugs, saying that, "it is undoubtedly the case that the process of globalization has facilitated the international dimension of the actions of cartels over the last decade," "by reducing the size of the world, so that it is easier for criminal networks to be strengthened" (Bagley, 2003).
He further argues that the "neoliberal tendency towards widening the divide between rich and poor [in many Latin American countries], coupled with a lack of legal, viable, manufacturing and export industries....have, in the past few decades, led to ideal conditions in which international crime can develop, and mulitply" (not a literal translation; Bagley, 2003).
He then goes on to analyze, in great detail, the process through which the deep criminalization, which,...
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