The Illegal Drug Industry,Violence and the Colombian Economy: A Department Level Analysis

Previous research on the Colombian illegal drug trade, which is generally qualitative in approach and focused on the national level, has concluded that the drug industry harms the economy. In order to test out this widespread claim, this article seeks to differentiate between the corrosive economic effects of Colombia's persistently high levels of generalised political violence and the specific consequences of the cocaine trade. It combines historical national level analysis with quantitative department analysis and identifies the economic effects of both paramilitary and guerrilla violence, thereby contributing to a closer examination of the impact of the drugs trade on the economy. The results reveal that paramilitary violence is related positively to exports but negatively to gross domestic product. Guerrilla violence, however, appears to harm exports but, surprisingly, not gross domestic product. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, coca cultivation does not have independent effects on exports or GDP, a conclusion which suggests that Colombia's economic problems stem more from political violence than from the drug trade in itself.     

LINCOLN CENTER AND NEW YORK

Abstract

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Marie C. Malaro. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. 351 pages, appendix, bibliography. $29.95. Reviewed by Joyce L. Hagen.     

Review essay/self‐defense theory

Suzanne Uniacke, Permissible Killing: The Self‐Defense Justification of Homicide Cambridge University Press, 1994, 231 pp.     

Cananea consolidated copper company from nationalization to privatization: 1972-1991

Copper, a base metal, became important in the late nineteenth century with the development of electricity and other industrial uses. La Cananea, a Mexican copper mine, was acquired and worked by an American, Colonel Greene, between 1896 and 1907. From 1907 until the mine was nationalized in 1972, the mine was successfully worked by Anaconda, an American multinational copper company. Poor performance under nationalization and a change of policy by the Mexican government led to the reprivatization of the mine in 1990. The process of re-privatization was complicated by two factors: the value of the mine and employee redundance. This paper considers the problems of ownership and management from nationalization to privatization from 1972 to 1991.     

Artenschutz und Straßenplanung – Neues aus Leipzig

Zusammenfassung  In seinem Urteil zur Nordumgehung Bad Oeynhausen hat sich das Bundesverwaltungsgericht um eine Sch?rfung des Profils der im Rahmen der Fachplanung beachtlichen Anforderungen des besonderen Artenschutzrechts bemüht. Der Beitrag behandelt einige Kernaussagen der Entscheidung und widmet sich der Frage, ob der Praxis damit eine hinreiche Grundlage zur rechtssicheren Bew?ltigung artenschutzrechtlicher Konfliktlagen verfügbar ist.