Alfred W McCoy

Alfred W. McCoy is the author of several nonfiction books, including In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power . He is also the author of Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State , which won the Kahin Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. His best-known book, The Politics of Heroin , stirred controversy when the CIA tried to block its publication in 1972, but it has remained in print for...See more

Alfred W. McCoy is the author of several nonfiction books, including In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power . He is also the author of Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State , which won the Kahin Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. His best-known book, The Politics of Heroin , stirred controversy when the CIA tried to block its publication in 1972, but it has remained in print for nearly fifty years, has been translated into nine languages, and is generally regarded as the "classic" work on global drug trafficking. He holds the Harrington chair of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches classes on the Vietnam War, modern empires, and US foreign policy. See less