The Blunders in the Western cross-cutting policies in Afghanistan: The Opium economy as a case of study

The Blunders in the Western cross-cutting policies in Afghanistan: The Opium economy as a case of study

In Afghanistan, opium cultivation was part of an economy of survival in the decades preceding the Afghan resistance war against the Soviets and, during the subsequent civil war, cultivation and trafficking of opium poppy became one of the main methods of financing the so-called warlords. However, th...

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Main Author: Francisco Berenguer-López
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UNISCI 2018-05-01
Series:Revista UNISCI
Subjects:
Opium
war economy
clientelist political network
Afghanistan
Integrated Counternarcotic Strategy
Online Access:http://www.unisci.es/the-blunders-in-the-western-cross-cutting-policies-in-afghanistan-the-opium-economy-as-a-case-of-study/

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