The Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade

by Ko-Lin Chin

Book Overview

The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a group of individuals who are simultaneously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080147521X
• ISBN13: 9780801475214
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher