LaMond Tullis is professor of political science at Brigham Young University. His principal publications include Lord and Peasant in Peru (Harvard); Politics and Social Change in Third World Countries (Wiley); and, Handbook of Research on the Illicit Drug Traffic (Greenwood). Since 1987 he has focused his research on the socio-economic and political consequences of the international traffic in illicit drugs. On that subject he has directed research projects for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, the United Nations University and the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies. His latest book manuscript, now under publication review, deals with socio-economic and political consequences of the illicit drug traffic in nine countries.