Drug Policies and Development : Conflict and Coexistence / edited by Julia Buxton, Mary Chinery-Hesse, Khalid Tinasti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Are Barriers to Sustainable Development Endogenous to Drug Control Policies? -- Khalid Tinasti, Julia Buxton and Mary Chinery-Hesse -- PART 1 -- Milestones of Drug Policies and Development -- 2 Drug Control and Development: a Blind Spot -- Julia Buxton -- 3 Imperial Drug Economies, Development, and the Search for Alternatives in Asia, from Colonialism to Decolonisation -- John Collins -- 4 From Alternative Development to Development-oriented Drug Policies -- Daniel Brombacher and Sarah David -- 5 Trying to Be All Things to All People: Alternative Development in Afghanistan -- David Mansfield -- 6 Cannabis Regulation and Development: Fair(er) Trade Options for Emerging Legal Markets -- David Bewley-Taylor, Martin Jelsma and Sylvia Kay -- PART 2 Human Development and Drug Policies -- 7 Making War: Conflict Zones and Their Implications for Drug Policy -- Tuesday Reitano -- 8 The Neo-patrimonial 'Use' of Drug Policy in Electoral Processes -- Khalid Tinasti -- 9 The Meaningful Participation of 'Stakeholders' in Global Drug Policy Debates-A Policy Comment -- Ann Fordham -- 10 The World Drug Policy Problem: Interview with José Ramos-Horta -- José Ramos-Horta and Khalid Tinasti -- PART 3 -- Drugs, Development and Cross-cutting Issues -- 11 The Rif and California: Environmental Violence in the Era of New Cannabis Markets -- Kenza Afsahi -- 12 The Gendered Impacts of Drug Policy on Women: Case Studies from Mexico -- Corina Giacomello -- 13 Incorporating Child Rights into Scheduling Decisions at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs -- Damon Barrett and Diederik Lohman -- 14 More Harm than Public Health in Drug Policy? A Comment -- Joanne Csete -- 15 Prohibitionist Drug Policy in South Africa-Reasons and Effects -- Andrew Scheibe, Shaun Shelly and Anna Versfeld -- Index.

The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical perspective. Contributions address the drugs and development nexus from a range of critical viewpoints, highlighting gaps and contradictions, as well as exploring strategies and opportunities for enhanced linkages between drug control and development programming. Criminalisation and coercive law enforcement-based responses in international and national level drug control are shown to undermine peace, security and development objectives.

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