Common Challenges, Common Responses: Fighting Narcotics as a Harbinger of International Cooperation

TY - INPR

T1 - Common Challenges, Common Responses: Fighting Narcotics as a Harbinger of International Cooperation

AU - Afsah, Ebrahim

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Popular and elite attitudes towards the production and trade in opium and its derivatives have undergone drastic changes over the last two hundred years. Introduced to the region as a cash crop by colonial powers controlling its international trade routes, opium had become by the mid 20th century a regular feature both of agricultural production –often under under government regulation if not instigation–, as well as recreational drug use of the well-heeled sections of society throughout the region but especially in Iran, Afghanistan, and in that part of the British Raj that comprises the territory of today’s Pakistan.

AB - Popular and elite attitudes towards the production and trade in opium and its derivatives have undergone drastic changes over the last two hundred years. Introduced to the region as a cash crop by colonial powers controlling its international trade routes, opium had become by the mid 20th century a regular feature both of agricultural production –often under under government regulation if not instigation–, as well as recreational drug use of the well-heeled sections of society throughout the region but especially in Iran, Afghanistan, and in that part of the British Raj that comprises the territory of today’s Pakistan.

M3 - Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article

JO - ECO Chronicle

JF - ECO Chronicle

ER -