A state built on sand : how opium undermined Afghanistan / David Mansfield.

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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-build...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mansfield, David (Consultant)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Opium trade > Afghanistan.
Afghanistan > Politics and government > 21st century.
Opium trade.
Politics and government.
Afghanistan.
2000-2099
Physical Description:xviii, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Establishing the context
  • Power, corruption and drug crop cultivation
  • Rural livelihoods perspectives on drug crop production
  • Research methodology
  • An historical overview: statebuilding and drug production in Afghanistan
  • Repositioning a pariah regime--the Taliban ban of 2000/01
  • Nangarhar--a model province
  • The ban unravels
  • The Helmand food zone--a technocratic response to a complex phenomenon
  • Shifting sands: movements in political geography and poppy cultivation.