The Global Afghan Opium Trade
Author | : United Nations |
Publisher | : United Nations Publications |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789211482638 |
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Author | : United Nations |
Publisher | : United Nations Publications |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789211482638 |
Author | : James Tharin Bradford |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2019-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501738348 |
Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes the opium industry what it is, but the sheer breadth of the twentieth-century Afghanistan experience. Rather than byproducts of a failed contemporary system, argues Bradford, drugs, especially opium, were critical components in the formation and failure of the Afghan state. In this history of drugs and drug control in Afghanistan, Bradford shows us how the country moved from licit supply of the global opium trade to one of the major suppliers of hashish and opium through changes in drug control policy shaped largely by the outside force of the United States. Poppies, Politics, and Power breaks the conventional modes of national histories that fail to fully encapsulate the global nature of the drug trade. By providing a global history of opium within the borders of Afghanistan, Bradford demonstrates that the country's drug trade and the government's position on that trade were shaped by the global illegal market and international efforts to suppress it. By weaving together this global history of the drug trade and drug policy with the formation of the Afghan state and issues within Afghan political culture, Bradford completely recasts the current Afghan, and global, drug trade.
Author | : James Tharin Bradford |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501738356 |
Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes the opium industry what it is, but the sheer breadth of the twentieth-century Afghanistan experience. Rather than byproducts of a failed contemporary system, argues Bradford, drugs, especially opium, were critical components in the formation and failure of the Afghan state. In this history of drugs and drug control in Afghanistan, Bradford shows us how the country moved from licit supply of the global opium trade to one of the major suppliers of hashish and opium through changes in drug control policy shaped largely by the outside force of the United States. Poppies, Politics, and Power breaks the conventional modes of national histories that fail to fully encapsulate the global nature of the drug trade. By providing a global history of opium within the borders of Afghanistan, Bradford demonstrates that the country's drug trade and the government's position on that trade were shaped by the global illegal market and international efforts to suppress it. By weaving together this global history of the drug trade and drug policy with the formation of the Afghan state and issues within Afghan political culture, Bradford completely recasts the current Afghan, and global, drug trade.
Author | : Gretchen Peters |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312379277 |
Revealing the astonishing story of how Afghanistan's booming opium trade is bankrolling Al Qaeda and the Taliban, "Seeds of Terror" follows the drugs from the fields of the small farmers to the clandestine deals of the weapons merchants.
Author | : Alfred W. McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Asia, Southeastern |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : UN |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789211302851 |
Global opium production increasingly shifted from South- East Asia to Afghanistan during the 1990s. This trend increased in the first decade of the twenty-first century to the point that Afghanistan’s supply of opium exceeded world demand. Afghanistan is now the source for more than 90 per cent of the world’s deadliest drug. The Afghan drug trade spreads crime, corruption, addiction and HIV. It is a major source of revenue for insurgents, criminals and terrorists. It undermines governance, public health, and public security within Afghanistan and along trafficking routes. In short, it poses a major transnational threat to health and security. The report reveals how the flows of Afghan opiates are distributed in the world, and the extent to which regional insurgency or instability is fuelled by the Afghan opiate industry.
Author | : Doris Buddenberg |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Drug abuse |
ISBN | : 9781422310090 |
Afghanistan's drug industry is a central issue for the country's state-building, security, governance, and development agenda.
Author | : David Mansfield |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2016-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190694602 |
Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded development in poppy-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar. Mansfield's book examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and he scrutinizes how prohibition served divergent and competing interests. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in rural areas, he explains how these bans affected farming communities, and how prohibition endured in some areas while in others opium production bans undermined livelihoods and destabilized the political order, fuelling violence and rural rebellion. Above all this book challenges how we have come to understand political power in rural Afghanistan. Far from being the passive recipients of violence by state and non-state actors, Mansfield highlights the role that rural communities have played in shaping the political terrain, including establishing the conditions under which they could persist with opium production.
Author | : Joel Hafvenstein |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : 9781599215952 |
Author | : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
“The present study goes beyond reporting on a single year's production and value. It examines Afghanistan's opium economy in order to understand its dynamics, the reasons for its success, its beneficiaries and victims, and the problems it has caused domestically and abroad.”-- Executive summary.