Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine
Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine
Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South
About this book
This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south. It exposes an important paradox: despite all the dangers and negative consequences of these criminal networks, in many cases, they also provide marginalised and excluded communities with important private sources of protection, investment, and employment.
This book reconstructs and compares socioeconomic contexts, criminal careers, and changes in farmgate prices of illicit coca and opium poppy crops in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Colombia, and Bolivia. It investigates the politics of strange bedfellows; informal bankers-without-suits providing cross-border financial services to the undocumented and the unbanked; the criminals without borders; and the mystery of illicit crop prices. The book challenges commonly held assumptions and casts new light on how relationships of conflict and accommodation are arranged and re-arranged in fluid, everchanging contexts, producing often paradoxical outcomes. It then suggests policy reforms and alternative approaches to drug policy, development aid, and peacebuilding work.
Researchers and students across development, peacebuilding, illicit economies, and conflict studies will find this book an important source of original research and analysis. It will also be useful for politicians, commentators, and public officials considering what to do differently in tackling illicit drug economies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Frontispiece
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of acronyms
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The puzzles and stories of resilience
- 2 The strange bedfellows of the illicit drug trade
- 3 Bankers without suits: The money men of informal and illicit economies
- 4 Survival and resilience: The paradox of illicit crops
- 5 Criminals without borders: Deconstructing and deciphering the life stories and role of drug lords in agrarian transformation
- 6 Precarity, illicit markets and the ‘mystery’ of prices
- 7 Intended and unintended interdependencies
- Bibliography
- Index