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CURRENT EVENTS AND ISSUES

The Civilian Lives Antarctica How the Drug War
of U.S. Veterans The Battle for the Ruins American Lives

Issues and Identities Seventh Continent ARTHUR BENAVIE

2 VOLUMES | LOUIS HICKS, DOAA ABDEL-MOTAAL
EUGENIA L. WEISS, AND
JOSE E. COLL, EDITORS
FOREWORD BY
ROBERT A. MCDONALD, SECRETARY
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
VETERANS AFFAIRS

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new conversation. ” A must-read for anyone—
—Pascal Lamy, Former Director- “ student, policymaker, and
“ collections supporting veterans’ General of the World Trade Organization, citizen—interested in rethinking
Academic libraries and
services will find this a superb April 26, 2016 current drug policies. ”
addition. ” The thawing Antarctic continent —Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet

—Library Journal, Starred Review, offers living space and marine and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School,
mineral resources that were previously
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March 6, 2017
inaccessible. This book discusses This book reveals the disturbing truth
In this book, 50 experts study the lives how revisiting the Antarctic Treaty about how the escalation of the War
of U.S. veterans at work, at home, and in System and dividing up the continent on Drugs over the past 30 years has
American society as they navigate issues preemptively could spare the world eroded the human and property rights
regarding health, gender, public service, serious conflict. of Americans—while doing little to stop
substance abuse, and homelessness.
FEATURES drug trafficking or use.
• Suggests that international conflict FEATURES
LOUIS HICKS, PhD, is professor of over Antarctica is likely in the coming
sociology and department chair at St. decades, particularly because the ban • Shows that the War on Drugs has
Mary’s College of Maryland. on mineral resources is up for revision failed to achieve the goals that were
EUGENIA L. WEISS, PhD, LCSW, is in 2048 originally set
an educator and a California licensed • Argues that this war continues to
clinical social worker and licensed erode human and property rights
psychologist. DOAA ABDEL-MOTAAL, PhD, is
an environment and climate change
JOSE E. COLL, PhD, is director and expert. She is former chief of staff ARTHUR BENAVIE, PhD, is emeritus
professor of the School of Social Work of the United Nations Fund for professor of economics at the University
at Texas State University and a 2014–15 Agricultural Development, Rome, of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
American Council on Education (ACE) Italy, and deputy chief of staff of the
fellow.
World Trade Organization, Geneva,
Switzerland.
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