Ebook: A state built on sand: how opium undermined Afghanistan
Author: Mansfield David
- Tags: Opium trade, Opium trade--Afghanistan, Politics and government, Online-Ressource, Opium trade -- Afghanistan, Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 21st century, Afghanistan
- Series: Oxford scholarship online
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Afghanistan
- Language: English
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Fluctuations in opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan have long been closely associated with perceptions of state power, such as after the Taliban imposed an almost countrywide ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to ban opium poppy cultivation became intimately linked with its state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were often cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded stabilization and development in opium-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar. Mansfield examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and scrutinizes how prohibition served quite divergent and sometimes competing interests.
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