Mansfield, David  (Consultant), <br/><br/>
A state built on sand :  how opium undermined Afghanistan / 
David Mansfield. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations (colour) 
<br/><br/> Previously issued in print: 2016. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Fluctuations in opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan have long been closely associated with perceptions of state power, such as after the Taliban imposed an almost countrywide ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to ban opium poppy cultivation became intimately linked with its state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were often cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded stabilization and development in opium-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar. Mansfield examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and scrutinizes how prohibition served quite divergent and sometimes competing interests. 
<br/><br/> Specialized. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780190638535 (ebook) :  No price 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Opium trade--Afghanistan.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Afghanistan--Politics and government--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV5840.A23 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.4509581