drug wars. Specifically, it challenges the David vs. Goliath conception of Colombia as a passive, client state simply … Colombia's displacement of state building dilemmas, including drug control, and that Bogota utilised the UN as a proxy …

This volume is part of the response to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on international drug … policy and the emergence of analysis of international drug policy in academic literature. Editors David Bewley-Taylor and …-Western countries. They have selected authors to provide an analytical critique of international drug policy, evidencing their stance of …

Thailand as practitioners of rural development policies in drug crop affected regions seek to translate the lessons of … traditional "alternative development" to urban and borderland areas affected by drug trafficking, arguing that many of the … drug debates. It then takes a step into the literature on peacebuilding, examining the possible positioning of drugs and …

that were once among the largest global producers of coca. The principal strategies used in these interventions are drug … conclude the article by discussing these findings in the context of recent scholarship and ongoing supply-side drug policies …

and practical experiences of the Colombian Government as well as the Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development …-growing areas to promote rural development and discourage illicit cultivation. The article suggests aligning drug and environmental …

In a search for appropriate theory, this essay inserts drug trafficking, the world’s largest illicit economic activity … netherworld’s politics and illicit commerce along the Burma-Thai borderlands, a regional ‘drug lord’ amassed sufficient local …

economies can contribute to the development of local order rather than destroying it. The VRAEM is the current epicenter of drug … observation, interviews and theory-based questionnaires collected in 2016 and 2017. The paper focuses on current center for drug …. Understanding this influence is essential for designing policies for and understanding dynamics of state intervention. The drug …

the context of illicit economies. The paper argues that in the context of weak states, the effectiveness of drug policies … communities and responds to their different needs, the paper offers relevant insights for policy that can inform drug policy …

The concept of alternative development (AD) in international drug control has evolved over the past four decades, with … several major milestones between the two United Nations General Assembly Special Sessions on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS …) 1998 and 2016. However, it was not until UNGASS 2016 that the door for development-oriented thinking in international drug …