A State Built on Sand : How Opium Undermined Afghanistan
by Mansfield, David
Edition statement:1st Published by : Hurst & Cimapny (London) Physical details: xviii,382 Pages 22x14 cm | PB ISBN:9781849045681. Year: 2016| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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