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And now on booktv, Peter Andreas talks about the long history of smuggling in the u. S. Which, prior to the revolutionary war, was driven by a desire to grow Domestic Industries and bypass paying import taxes to the british. Its about an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone, to the Watson Institute for International Studies for the discussion of Peter Andreas new book, smuggler nation. Housekeeping, i have to mention some things. The way were going to run this is as follows, peter is going to get up and talk briefly about the book because, obviously, if he doesnt say anything,...

Oneway conversation. After this will invite richard and james to say their piece on the book, and hopefully we can get stuck into a good discussion of smuggler nation and its aspects. At that point, we will open it up for q a. You will see it is one fix microphone, and another mobile microphone for this side of the house. If you wish to join the q a, please, if youre on this side get up and stand behind a microphone. We have to do it this way because there is no mobile microphone that we can use for recording for cspan, and we do what your questions and answers to be an integral part of this b...

Series of trials that have been taking place there. Im not going to trespass on the subject matter because jess is going to give us a good taste of what hes been writing about. But i did want to introduce jess, the person. Hes someone i got to know a few years ago when we were both traveling from washington, d. C. To to williamsburg, and the train, amtrak broke down, and we grabbed a car and rode down together and had just an extraordinarily enjoyable time because jess is, as i think most people know, one of the leading legal reporters in the United States. But what they may not know is his, y...

After that we will open up for q a. You will see one fixed microphone there and another vocal microphone for the site of the house. If you wish to join q a, get up and stand behind the microphone. We have to do it this way because they are so mobile is for recording cspan and we do want your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without further ado, ill begin my brief introduction. So heres the book. There we go. For those of you who know peter, you know this is unusual. Peter tends to write short books. You think to yourself, this is serious. Im not g...

<strong>The long read</strong>: Just like the war on drugs and the war on terror, efforts at stopping population movement by force often just fuel the problem. But for many claiming to confront the perceived threat, that suits all too well