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A state built on sand : how opium undermined Afghanistan /

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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 lin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mansfield, David (Consultant) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Opium trade > Afghanistan.
Afghanistan > Politics and government > 21st century.
Opium > Commerce > Afghānistān.
Afghānistān > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siècle.
Opium trade
Politics and government
Afghanistan
2000-2099
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Establishing the context
  • Power, corruption and drug crop cultivation
  • Rural livelihoods perspectives on drug crop production
  • Research methodology
  • An historical overview: statebuilding and drug production in Afghanistan
  • Repositioning a pariah regime
  • the Taliban ban of 2000/01
  • Nangarhar
  • a model province
  • The ban unravels
  • The Helmand food zone
  • a technocratic response to a complex phenomenon
  • Shifting sands: movements in political geography and poppy cultivation.