UID:
almahu_9947362140202882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (colour)
ISBN:
9780190638535 (ebook) :
Content:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190608316
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
