A state built on sand : how opium undermined Afghanistan / / David Mansfield
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| Autore: |
Mansfield David
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| Titolo: |
A state built on sand : how opium undermined Afghanistan / / David Mansfield
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource : illustrations (colour) |
| Disciplina: | 363.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Opium trade - Afghanistan |
| Soggetto geografico: | Afghanistan Politics and government 21st century |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2016. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A state built on sand |
| ISBN: | 0-19-069460-2 |
| 0-19-063853-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821086603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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