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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779164603321

Autore

Bewley-Taylor David R. <1968->

Titolo

International drug control : consensus fractured / / David R. Bewley-Taylor [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-107-23003-9

1-139-36612-2

1-280-66407-X

1-139-05742-1

1-139-37868-6

9786613641007

1-139-37582-2

1-139-37725-6

1-139-37183-5

1-139-38011-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL011000

Disciplina

363.45

Soggetti

Drug control - International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested and transitionary field of multinational cooperation. Employing a fine-grained and interdisciplinary approach, this book provides the first integrated analysis of the sources, manifestations and sometimes paradoxical implications of this divergence. The author develops an original explanatory framework through which to understand better the dynamic and tense intersection between policy shifts at varying levels of governance and the regime's core prohibitive norm. Highlighting the centrality of the harm reduction



approach and tolerant cannabis policies to an ongoing process of regime transformation, this book examines the efforts of those actors seeking to defend the existing international control framework and explores rationales and scenarios which may lead to the international community moving beyond it.