Drug policies and development conflict and coexistence

"The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical perspective. Contributions address the drugs and development nexus from a range of critical viewpoints, highlighting gaps...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Buxton, Julia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill [2020], 2020
Series:International development policy
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 3 The Post-war 'Drug War': Americanisation and Criminalisation
  • 3.1 The 1961 Single Convention
  • 3.2 The US 'War on Drugs'
  • 4 Accounting for Persistence
  • 4.1 US Pragmatism
  • 4.2 Economics of Criminalisation
  • 4.3 Enforcement Costs
  • 4.4 Sustained Demand
  • 4.5 Conditions in Cultivating Areas
  • 4.6 National-Level Impacts
  • 5 Alternative Development
  • 5.1 The Thai Experience
  • 5.2 To al and dodc
  • 5.3 The Limitations of ad
  • 6 Development: a Prohibition Blind Spot
  • 7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Illustrations
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Are Barriers to Sustainable Development Endogenous to Drug Control Policies?
  • References
  • Part 1 Milestones of Drug Policies and Development
  • Chapter 2 Drug Control and Development: A Blind Spot
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Establishing the Global Divide: from Free Trade to Trade Regulation
  • 2.1 The Impact of International Trade Regulation
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Cannabis Regulation and Development: Fair(er) Trade Options for Emerging Legal Markets
  • 1 Introduction1
  • 2 Legal Market Expansion
  • 3 Corporate Capture
  • 4 The Challenge of Transition
  • 5 Cannabis and Development
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part 2 Human Development and Drug Policies
  • Chapter 7 Making War: Conflict Zones and Their Implications for Drug Policy
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Drug Trafficking and Conflict Nexus
  • 2.1 The Violent-Governance Paradigm
  • 3 Bringing the Drug Policy Agenda to the Negotiating Table
  • References
  • 2 From the 20th to the 30th ungass-Milestones that Paved the Way
  • 3 The Post-ungass Scenario-Are We There Yet?
  • 4 The Reality of ad-a Niche Becomes a Pillar
  • 5 Talk Is Cheap-the Funding Situation for Alternative Development
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Trying to Be All Things to All People: Alternative Development in Afghanistan
  • 1 Introduction1
  • 2 Methodology
  • 3 Alternative Development: the Bounded and Failing Interventions of the 1990s
  • 4 Alternative Development: Attempts to Redefine, Recast and Widen Ownership
  • 5 Alternative Development: Resistance to Change
  • Chapter 3 Imperial Drug Economies, Development, and the Search for Alternatives in Asia, from Colonialism to Decolonisation
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Drugs as a Historical Phenomenon
  • 3 European Empires, Mercantilism and Control of the Sino-Indian Opium Trade
  • 3.1 Rethinking the Socioeconomic Impacts of the Sino-Indian Opium Trade
  • 4 New Regimes
  • 5 Decolonisation and the Emergence of the Golden Triangle
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4 From Alternative Development to Development-Oriented Drug Policies
  • 1 The Evolution of the Concept of Alternative Development1