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Curtis Marez is associate professor and chair of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (Minnesota, 2004), the former editor of the American Quarterly, and a past president of the American Studies Association.

Curtis Marez is associate professor and chair of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (Minnesota, 2004), the former editor of the American Quarterly, and a past president of the American Studies Association.

Inaugurated in 1984, America's "War on Drugs" is just the most recent skirmish in a standoff between global drug trafficking and state power. From Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars in China to the activities of Colombia's drug cartels and their suppression by U.S.-backed military forces today, conflicts over narcotics have justified imperial expansion, global capitalism, and state violence, even as they have also fueled the movement of g...