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Alfred W. McCoy

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academic author historian human

Alfred W. McCoy is an American historian and author known for his influential work on U.S. foreign policy, empire, and the global drug trade.

Aliases (1)

Alfred McCoy ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → author → historian → human →
academicDiscipline	Asian studies → history → international relations →
citizenship	American →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1945 →
educatedAt	Columbia University → Yale University →
employer	University of Wisconsin–Madison →
fieldOfWork	Philippine history → Southeast Asian history → U.S. foreign policy → global drug trade → history → imperialism →
genre	historical writing → non-fiction → political history →
hasWrittenAbout	Central Intelligence Agency → Philippine–American War → Vietnam War → War on Terror → global narcotics trade → surveillance state →
knownFor	critical analysis of U.S. empire → research on CIA involvement in the global drug trade → scholarship on the Philippines under U.S. colonial rule → studies of torture and interrogation practices →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	revisionist history →
notableIdea	analysis of U.S. decline as a global hegemon by mid-21st century → link between U.S. imperial power and surveillance practices →
notableWork	A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror → An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines → Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy → In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power → Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State → The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia → The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade →
occupation	historian → university professor → writer →
placeOfBirth	Concord, Massachusetts →
positionHeld	Harrington Professor of History →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
The American Empire Project → The American Empire Project ("Alfred McCoy") →	hasContributor