The Global Afghan Opium Trade
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The Global Afghan Opium Trade
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Author : United Nations
language : en
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Release Date : 2011
The Global Afghan Opium Trade written by United Nations and has been published by United Nations Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Political Science categories.
Poppies Politics And Power
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Author : James Tharin Bradford
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-15
Poppies Politics And Power written by James Tharin Bradford and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-15 with History categories.
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.
Addiction Crime And Insurgency
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: UN
Release Date : 2009
Addiction Crime And Insurgency written by and has been published by UN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Law categories.
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.
The Nexus
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Author : Frank Shanty
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-03-03
The Nexus written by Frank Shanty and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Political Science categories.
This timely and important work offers an in-depth analysis of the existence—or nonexistence—of a nexus between international terrorism and drug trafficking emanating from Afghanistan. The Nexus: International Terrorism and Drug Trafficking from Afghanistan addresses an issue that directly impacts the prospects for resolution of the current insurgency in that nation. Written by noted terrorism expert Frank Shanty, the book explores the nature and the extent of involvement between international criminal drug traffickers, particularly of drugs originating from Afghanistan, and international terrorist networks with global reach. Shanty dispels the myths and disinformation surrounding this vital—and controversial—question, even as he arrives at his own answers. In addition to offering a historical overview of the opium problem in Afghanistan from the late 1970s to 2010, the book looks at three distinct phenomena. It examines the existence, characteristics, and behavior of international terrorists operating from Afghanistan, specifically the evolution and ascendancy of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and the nature of their relationship. It looks at Afghanistan's opium trade relative to specific-actor involvement and, finally, it analyzes allegations of a link between terrorists in Afghanistan and international drug criminals and the implications of that connection.
An Afghan Narco State
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Author : Matt Weiner
language : en
Publisher: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
Release Date : 2004
An Afghan Narco State written by Matt Weiner and has been published by Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Afghanistan categories.
Afghanistan S Drug Industry
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Author : Doris Buddenberg
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Afghanistan S Drug Industry written by Doris Buddenberg and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Drug abuse categories.
Afghanistan's drug industry is a central issue for the country's state-building, security, governance, and development agenda.
Drugs Production And Trafficking In Afghanistan
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Author : Deepali Gaur Singh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Drugs Production And Trafficking In Afghanistan written by Deepali Gaur Singh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Afghanistan categories.
Drugs In Afghanistan
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Author : David Macdonald
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2007-01-20
Drugs In Afghanistan written by David Macdonald and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium and heroin. This book explores the devastating impact that the drugs trade has had on the Afghan people. Author David Macdonald has worked as a drugs advisor to the UN. Based on his extensive experience, this book breaks down the myths surrounding the cultivation and consumption of drugs, providing a detailed analysis of the history of drug use within the country. He examines the impact of over 25 years of continuous conflict, and shows how poverty and instability has led to an increase in drugs consumption. He also considers the recent rise in the use of pharmaceutical drugs, resulting in dangerous chemical cocktails and analyses the effect of Afghanistan's drug trade on neighbouring countries.
The Opium Economy In Afghanistan
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Author : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Opium Economy In Afghanistan written by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
“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.
Afghanistan Narcotics And U S Policy
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Afghanistan Narcotics And U S Policy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Opium poppy cultivation and drug trafficking have become significant factors in Afghanistan's fragile political and economic order over the last 25 years. In 2004, Afghanistan was the source of 87% of the world's illicit opium and heroin, in spite of ongoing efforts by the Afghan government, the United States, and their international partners to combat poppy cultivation and drug trafficking. U.N. officials estimate that in-country illicit profits from the record 2004 poppy crop were equivalent in value to 60% of the country's legitimate GDP, raising fears that Afghanistan's economic recovery is being underwritten increasingly by drug profits. Across Afghanistan, regional militia commanders, criminal organizations, and corrupt government officials have exploited opium production and trafficking as reliable sources of revenue and patronage, which has perpetuated the threat these groups pose to the country's fragile internal security and the legitimacy of its embryonic democratic government. The trafficking of Afghan drugs also appears to provide financial and logistical support to a range of extremist groups that continue to operate in and around Afghanistan, including remnants of the Taliban regime and some Al Qaeda operatives. The issue is further complicated by an aspect of coalition forces' ongoing pursuit of security and counterterrorism objectives: frequent reliance for intelligence and security support on figures who may be involved in the production or trafficking of narcotics. The failure of U.S. and international counternarcotics efforts to significantly disrupt the Afghan opium trade or sever its links to warlordism and corruption since the fall of the Taliban has led some observers to warn that without redoubled multilateral action, Afghanistan may succumb to a state of lawlessness and reemerge as a sanctuary for terrorists.