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A state built on sand : how opium undermined Afghanistan /
Mansfield's book examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and he scrutinizes how prohibition served divergent and competing interests. Above all this book challenges how we have come to understand political power i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Establishing the Context; Introduction; Rationale; Hypothesis and Questions; Methodology; Structure; 2. Power, Corruption and Drug Crop Cultivation; Introduction; Behaving Like a State: Drug Control and Statebuilding; Fulfilling International Drug Control Obligations in Countries with Limited or Contested Domestic Sovereignty; Conclusion; 3. Rural Livelihoods Perspectives on Drug Crop Production; Introduction.
- Assessing Changes in Patterns of Drug Crop Cultivation from Afar: The Limits of the Current LiteratureReshaping our Understanding of Drug Crop Cultivation and Those Who Cultivate Drug Crops; Using the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to Improve Understanding of Drug Crop Cultivation and Efforts to Ban It; Conclusion; 4. Research Methodology; Introduction; Focusing the Research; The Research Design; Collecting Primary Data; Adapting to the Security Environment: Methodological and Ethical Considerations; Conclusion; 5. An Historical Overview: Statebuilding and Drug Production in Afghanistan.
- IntroductionStatebuilding in Afghanistan; Opium Production, Policy and Efforts at Control; Conclusion; 6. Repositioning a Pariah Regime-The Taliban Ban of 2000/01; Introduction; Taking the Moral High Ground; The Ball is in Your Court: Negotiating with the International Community; Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't; A Movement, Not a Monolith; Conclusion; 7. Nangarhar-A Model Province; Introduction; The Provincial Context; Banning Opium in Nangarhar; Conclusion; 8. The Ban Unravels; Introduction; Politics at the Centre: The Return of the Nangarhari Elite.
- Beyond the Politics of Personalities: An Analysis of the Changing Political and Economic Circumstances of Rural ConstituentsConclusion; 9. The Helmand Food Zone-A Technocratic Response to a Complex Phenomenon; Introduction; The Provincial Context; Banning Opium in the Canal Command Area: The Establishment of the Helmand Food Zone; Conclusion; 10. Shifting Sands: Movements in Political Geography and Poppy Cultivation; Introduction; The Changing Face of Central Helmand; Livelihood Trajectories in Central Helmand; Conclusion; 11. Conclusion; Introduction.
- Projecting the Appearance of Power: the Problematic Relationship Between Prohibition and StatebuildingUnderstanding the Diffuse Nature of Political Power in Rural Space; The Rural Population as Political Actors; Distorting the Political Marketplace; Bans as Temporary Coalitions of Interest; Contribution to Policy; Contribution to Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index.