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.

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Label	Occurrences
Alfred W. McCoy canonical	12
Alfred McCoy	1
Alfred McCoy Tyner	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 ⓘ Global War on Terrorism ⓘ surface form: 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 (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The American Empire Project → hasContributor → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Alfred McCoy

Harrington Professor of History → heldBy → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

Harrington Professor of History → hasTitleHolder → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia → author → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

subject surface form: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade → author → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror → author → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State → author → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power → author → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy → author → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines → author → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines → editor → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

McCoy Tyner → fullName → Alfred W. McCoy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Alfred McCoy Tyner