02177nam 2200481 450 991082108660332120200520144314.00-19-069460-20-19-063853-2(CKB)3710000000881891(StDuBDS)EDZ0001535578(MiAaPQ)EBC4803072(Au-PeEL)EBL4803072(CaPaEBR)ebr11341584(OCoLC)959951570(EXLCZ)99371000000088189120170222h20162016 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierA state built on sand how opium undermined Afghanistan /David MansfieldNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2016.©20161 online resource illustrations (colour)Previously issued in print: 2016.0-19-060831-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Opium tradeAfghanistanAfghanistanPolitics and government21st centuryOpium trade363.5Mansfield David1169886MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821086603321A state built on sand4060787UNINA