Research handbook on international drug policy. ([2020])
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- Book
- Title:
- Research handbook on international drug policy. ([2020])
- Main Title:
- Research handbook on international drug policy
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by David R. Bewley-Taylor, Professor of International Relations and Public Policy and Director of the Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University, UK ; Khalid Tinasti, Visiting Teaching and Research Fellow, Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva, Executive Secretary of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, Switzerland and Honorary Research Associate, Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University, UK.
- Editors:
- Bewley-Taylor, David R, 1968-
Tinasti, Khalid - Contents:
- Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: international drug policy in an era of growing complexity, challenge and tension -- PART I HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL -- 1. Foundations of the international drug control regime: nineteenth century to the Second World War -- 2. The evolution of international drug control under the United Nations -- 3. Drug consumers and the formation of the international drug control apparatus -- PART II THE GEOSPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF DRUG POLICY 4. North American drug policy: American and Canadian developments from the early twentieth century to today -- 5. Latin America and the Caribbean: complicity and legacy of a long war -- 6. Western and Central Europe: towards a cohesive model for drug policies? -- 7. Documenting human rights violations is not enough to reform archaic drug policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- 8. Drug policy in Africa: a history of global and regional dynamics -- 9. Drug use, policies and prohibition in Muslim countries -- 10. Drug policy in Asia: the origins and extremities of prohibition 11. The changing tides of drug consumption, supply and drug policy in Oceania -- PART III EMERGING TENSIONS WITHIN THE UN DRUG CONTROL SYSTEM AND BEYOND -- 12. The rise and fall of the "drug free world" narrative -- 13. Drug control and human rights: parallel universes, universal parallels -- 14. Public health and international drug control: harm reduction andFront Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: international drug policy in an era of growing complexity, challenge and tension -- PART I HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL -- 1. Foundations of the international drug control regime: nineteenth century to the Second World War -- 2. The evolution of international drug control under the United Nations -- 3. Drug consumers and the formation of the international drug control apparatus -- PART II THE GEOSPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF DRUG POLICY 4. North American drug policy: American and Canadian developments from the early twentieth century to today -- 5. Latin America and the Caribbean: complicity and legacy of a long war -- 6. Western and Central Europe: towards a cohesive model for drug policies? -- 7. Documenting human rights violations is not enough to reform archaic drug policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- 8. Drug policy in Africa: a history of global and regional dynamics -- 9. Drug use, policies and prohibition in Muslim countries -- 10. Drug policy in Asia: the origins and extremities of prohibition 11. The changing tides of drug consumption, supply and drug policy in Oceania -- PART III EMERGING TENSIONS WITHIN THE UN DRUG CONTROL SYSTEM AND BEYOND -- 12. The rise and fall of the "drug free world" narrative -- 13. Drug control and human rights: parallel universes, universal parallels -- 14. Public health and international drug control: harm reduction and access to controlled medicines -- 15. Drugs and development: drug policies and the Global South -- 16. Bolivia, coca, culture and colonialism 17. Regulating cannabis in Uruguay, the United States and Canada: is a social justice framework possible? -- PART IV FUTURE CHALLENGES -- 18. The search for new drug policy metrics -- 19. The NPS imposters, merging and emerging drug markets and the contribution of drug checking -- 20. Drug cryptomarket futures: structure, function and evolution in response to law enforcement actions -- Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 364.1/77
Drug control
International law
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781788117067
1788117069 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781788117050
1788117050 - Notes:
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