Cruel harvest : US intervention in the Afghan drug trade /

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Mainstream commentators claim that the Taliban are the culprits behind Afghanistan's rocketing drug trade and that the US military is waging war on drugs in Afghanistan to weaken the resurgency and keep the streets heroin-free. This book lifts the lid on the reality, showing that the US in fact...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mercille, Julien
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Pluto, 2013.
Subjects:
Drug traffic > Political aspects > Afghanistan.
Drug control > Political aspects.
Drogues > Trafic > Aspect politique > Afghānistān.
Lutte antidrogue > Aspect politique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Drug traffic > Political aspects.
International relations.
United States > Relations > Afghanistan.
Afghanistan > Relations > United States.
Afghanistan.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Perspectives
  • Rise to prominence
  • From forgotten state to rogue state
  • To Afghanistan
  • Washington and the Afghan drug trade since 2001
  • Solutions
  • Conclusion: American power, drugs, and drug wars.

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