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State Built on Sand

How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

Автор: David Mansfield

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

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Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state w...

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Автор

David Mansfield

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2016

страници

352

EAN

9781849045681

ISBN

1849045682

Enbook ID

09276839

Издател

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Теглоt

552

Размери

215 x 145 x 26

Пълно описание

Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1.The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded development in poppy-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar.Mansfield's book examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and he scrutinises how prohibition served divergent and competing interests. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in rural areas, he explains how these bans affected farming communities, and how prohibition endured in some areas while in others opium production bans undermined livelihoods and destabilised the political order, fuelling violence and rural rebellion.Above all this book challenges how we have come to understand political power in rural Afghanistan. Far from being the passive recipients of violence by state and non-state actors, Mansfield highlights the role that rural communities have played in shaping the political terrain, including establishing the conditions under which they could persist with opium production.