Geopolitical imagination and the US war on drugs against China

Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 204 - 221
Published: Dec 15, 2018
Abstract
The war on drugs has been an essential component of US territorial politics since the Second World War. This paper examines the US discursive war on drugs against China in the context of changing US–China relations. It focuses on two schemes. Scheme I is that in the 1950s state actors in the United States portrayed Communist China as a source country; and Scheme II is that the fentanyl-related opioid crisis exploding in 2017 in the United States...
Paper Details
Title
Geopolitical imagination and the US war on drugs against China
Published Date
Dec 15, 2018
Volume
8
Issue
2
Pages
204 - 221
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