The political economy of narcotics : production, consumption and global markets /: production, consumption and global markets. ([2008])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Julia Buxton.
• Other Names: Buxton, Julia
• Contents: 1. Intoxicating substances in historical perspective -- The role of drugs in global society -- Opium and empire -- The Chinese opium market -- 2. The drift to regulation and the idea of prohibition -- Drug consumption in the Western market -- The advent of control : Britain and America contrasted -- The US modernization experience : tension and protest -- The alcohol prohibition movement and experience -- 3. From regulation to control : the internationalization of drug prohibition -- The anti-opium campaign in Britain -- Enter America : the anti-opium campaign of the US government -- The Shanghai Conference of 1909 and its impact -- 4. The beginnings of international drug control -- From principle to policy -- Evaluating the early drug control system -- Domestic drug control -- 5. The post-war international drug control regime -- The United Nations and drug control -- The post-war model : prohibition victory? -- Rebellion and division within the drug control system -- 6. Trends in drug consumption -- The knowledge gap -- Patterns of controlled drug use -- Consumption dynamics in the 2000s. 7. Trends in cultivation and production -- Supply controls phase 1 : opiates, supply reduction and the rise of the Golden Triangle -- Supply controls phase 2 : supply expansion and the Golden Crescent -- Coca and cocaine -- The manufacture and supply of other controlled drugs -- The traffic in and traffickers of controlled drugs -- 8. Accounting for failure : the problem of prohibition -- The limits of prohibition -- The economics of the drug trade -- 9. Accounting for failure 2 : institutions and policy -- Alternative development -- Research : a hostile environment -- Demand-side neglect -- By way of a conclusion : institutional crisis and decline -- 10. The political impact of drugs and drug control -- The importance of state presence -- Anti-drug responses : more harm than good? -- United States : the heart of the problem -- Full circle : more harm than good? -- 11. HIV/AIDS and intravenous drug use -- The epidemiology of HIV/AIDS -- The rise of the post-Soviet drug problem -- IDU-related sub-epidemics : the global picture -- From IDUs to broader infection -- Conclusion -- 12. International drug control and HIV/AIDS -- Harm reduction and injecting drug use -- Injecting drug use and prisons -- Opposition to harm reduction -- A problem caused by drug control? -- Conclusion. 13. Cultivation and drug production : the environmental costs -- The greening of the drugs issue -- The environmental costs of narcotic plant cultivation -- Drug production and the environment -- Drugs and the environment : a credible debate? -- Conclusion -- 14. Anti-drug policies and the environment : the role of chemical fumigation -- US fumigation strategies in historical context : the Mexican experience -- Contemporary fumigation strategies : Plan Colombia -- The impact of chemical fumigation with Glyphosate -- The politics of fumigation -- By way of a conclusion -- 15. The new magic bullet : bio-control solutions -- The evolution of the mycoherbicide strategy -- The Fusarium debate -- The direction of mycoherbicide research -- The politics of mycoherbicides -- The challenge of US unilateralism -- Conclusion -- 16. A note on hemp -- A brief history of hemp -- The economic causes of hemp's decline -- The political causes of hemp's decline -- The contemporary hemp revolution -- Conclusion -- By way of a conclusion.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 246 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 363.45; Drug control -- History; Drug abuse -- Government policy; Drug traffic -- Government policy; Drogues -- Trafic; Drogue, Lutte contre la; Toxicomanie; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; Drug abuse -- Government policy; Drug control; Globalisierung; Rauschgift; Drogues -- Lutte contre; Drogues -- Trafic; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848131613; 1848131615
• Related ISBNs: 9781842774468; 1842774468; 1842774476; 9781842774472; 1552661989; 9781552661987
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index.
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