TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mansfield,David
TI  - A state built on sand: how opium undermined Afghanistan 
SN  - 9780190638535 (ebook) :
AV  - HV5840.A23 
U1  - 363.4509581 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - [New York]
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Opium trade
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190608316.001.0001
ER  -