Common Challenges, Common Responses: Fighting Narcotics as a Harbinger of International Cooperation
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Common Challenges, Common Responses: Fighting Narcotics as a Harbinger of International Cooperation. / Afsah, Ebrahim.
In: ECO Chronicle, 2014.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article › Communication
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T1 - Common Challenges, Common Responses: Fighting Narcotics as a Harbinger of International Cooperation
AU - Afsah, Ebrahim
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Popular and elite attitudes towards the production and trade in opium and its derivatives have undergone drastic changes over the last two hundred years. Introduced to the region as a cash crop by colonial powers controlling its international trade routes, opium had become by the mid 20th century a regular feature both of agricultural production –often under under government regulation if not instigation–, as well as recreational drug use of the well-heeled sections of society throughout the region but especially in Iran, Afghanistan, and in that part of the British Raj that comprises the territory of today’s Pakistan.
AB - Popular and elite attitudes towards the production and trade in opium and its derivatives have undergone drastic changes over the last two hundred years. Introduced to the region as a cash crop by colonial powers controlling its international trade routes, opium had become by the mid 20th century a regular feature both of agricultural production –often under under government regulation if not instigation–, as well as recreational drug use of the well-heeled sections of society throughout the region but especially in Iran, Afghanistan, and in that part of the British Raj that comprises the territory of today’s Pakistan.
M3 - Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article
JO - ECO Chronicle
JF - ECO Chronicle
ER -
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