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Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine - Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South
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Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine - Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South
Series: Routledge Critical Development Studies
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This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops
in the global south. It exposes an important paradox: despite all
the dangers and negative consequences of these criminal networks,
in many cases, they also provide marginalised and excluded
communities with important private sources of protection,
investment, and employment. This book reconstructs and compares
socioeconomic contexts, criminal careers, and changes in farmgate
prices of illicit coca and opium poppy crops in Afghanistan,
Myanmar, Colombia, and Bolivia. It investigates the politics of
strange bedfellows; informal bankers-without-suits providing
cross-border financial services to the undocumented and the
unbanked; the criminals without borders; and the mystery of illicit
crop prices. The book challenges commonly held assumptions and
casts new light on how relationships of conflict and accommodation
are arranged and re-arranged in fluid, ever-changing contexts,
producing often paradoxical outcomes. It then suggests policy
reforms and alternative approaches to drug policy, development aid,
and peacebuilding work. Researchers and students across
development, peacebuilding, illicit economies, and conflict studies
will find this book an important source of original research and
analysis. It will also be useful for politicians, commentators and
public officials considering what to do differently in tackling
illicit drug economies.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Critical Development Studies |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Eric D. U. Gutierrez
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-250039-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-03-250039-5 |
Barcode: |
9781032500393 |
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