International drug control : consensus fractured / / David R. Bewley-Taylor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810369003321
• Autore: Bewley-Taylor David R. <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge ; ; New York, : 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
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: POL011000
• Disciplina: 363.45
• Soggetti: Drug control - International cooperation; Drugs - Law and legislation
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- International Drug Control -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and maps -- Tables and boxes -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction -- The global drug prohibition regime -- On the right path? Differential metrics of success -- Approaches and key themes -- Plan of the book -- 2: Soft defection and the domestic normalization of harm reduction -- The mechanics of soft defection: harm reduction via glitches in the system -- The domestic normalization of harm reduction -- Opioid substitution therapy - from law enforcement to public health -- Needle and syringe programmes - grassroots and government initiatives -- Controlled heroin prescription: long history, limited uptake -- Drug consumption rooms: robust legal justification, limited uptake -- Harm ; reduction and policy transfer -- 'Condemned to pragmatism': the emergence of harm reduction as a core component of EU drug policy -- Maastricht: changing the landscape -- Harm reduction via triangulation -- The impact of the 2005-08 Action Plan -- Concluding discussion -- 3: Harm reduction at the UN: member state tension and systemic dissonance -- Harm reduction at the CND, 1998-2009: schisms, science and suasion -- Country and regional group statements -- The dynamics of dissonance: regime (in)stability -- Drug control, harm reduction and core UN values -- Concluding discussion -- 4: Cannabis, soft defection and regime weakening -- Cannabis within the conventions: composite classification -- First and second waves of soft defection -- Prohibition with cautioning or diversion ('depenalization') -- Prohibition with civil penalties ('decriminalization') -- Medical marijuana control -- Partial prohibition: de facto and de jure legalization -- Partial prohibition: de facto legalization -- Partial prohibition: de jure legalization.; Commonalities underpinning soft defection -- The issue of cannabis at the CND, 1998-2009 -- Cannabis resolutions: the INCB and the diligent producer versus the 'lenient' consumer state dichotomy -- Cannabis as the 'most vulnerable point in the whole multilateral edifice' -- Dronabinol and the WHO -- Concluding discussion -- 5: Defending the regime: the International Narcotics Control Board -- The INCB and its place within the international drug control system -- Defence via the Annual Report -- Inconsistent positions on policy debates -- Selective use of the available evidence base -- Selective focus of subject matter -- Exceeding mandate -- Defence by other means: missions, letters and misuse of expert roles -- Coca and the conventions: the hardening of the INCB's prohibitionist stance -- Reactions to moves to 'un-schedule' coca -- Explaining INCB behaviour during the UNGASS decade -- Concluding discussion -- 6: Beyond regime weakening? Lessons from the UNGASS decade -- Rationales for regime modernization -- Treaty reform on technical and scientific grounds: cannabis and coca -- Treaty reform on performance grounds: failure to achieve core objectives and the generation of counterproductive impacts -- The capacity of the GDPR to limit freedom of action: the need for drug policy repatriation -- Reformist debate and political pragmatism -- Negotiating the obstacles to a change of regime -- Treaty revision -- Withdrawal from the conventions -- Harnessing like-mindedness -- Problems with sequencing -- Europe as the core of a like-minded group? -- What role for the EU? -- Concluding discussion -- 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.