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Alfred W. McCoy is a noted historian and current Professor of History in the "Center for Southeast Asian Studies", at the University Of Wisconsin-Madison . He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his PhD in Southeastern Asia n history from Yale University . He primarily researches and writes about Philippines history and on the Golden Triangle drug trades of Opium and Heroin ; his ''The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia'' was a landmark work documenting how the CIA aided, abetted, and controlled the drug trade for its own enrichment and geo-political purposes.

In 2001, the Association For Asian Studies awarded him the Grant Goodman Prize for his career contributions to the study of the Philippines.


PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • '' Laos : War and Revolution'', co-editor, 1970

  • '' The Politics Of Heroin In Southeast Asia '', by Alfred W. McCoy with Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II , 1972, ISBN 06-012901-8

  • ''An Anarchy Of Families (state and family in the Philippines)'', 1998, ISBN 9-715-50128-1

  • ''Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy'', 1999, ISBN 0-300-07765-3

  • ''A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror'', 2006, ISBN 0-805-08041-4



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  NAME McCoy, Alfred W
  ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCoy, Alfread
  SHORT DESCRIPTION American historian of Southeast Asia and of the drug trades