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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 70–75.
Published: 01 June 2002
... east Asia, a change that has coincided with scourges have reappeared, and new drugs Beijing’s loosening of social controls, the such as methamphetamines and heroin have People’s Republic has experienced an explo­ become popular as well. Running out of sion of drug trafficking...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2000
... marijuana, heroin, and cocaine tumayo and Caqueta, strongholds of the production and trafficking in such “source” Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia countries as Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia by (f a r c ), the largest of three leftist guerrilla eradicating crops, attacking refining labs...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 41–44.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of femininity, domesticity, and family are being transformed by the efforts of jihadi groups to vie for female recruits. Sunnat-e-Khaula aims to be different from the start. Even its title is borrowed from a heroine of early Islam, a female fighter named Khaula who lived during the time of the Prophet...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 2000
... of the electorate. (Colombia now produces approximately 80 percent of the world’s cocaine and 70 percent of the heroin consumed on the east coast of the United States.1) What we are seeing now in Colombia (as Linda Robinson reported in the fall issue of this journal) is an American involvement in fighting...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 2001
... a reli­ forces by becoming involved in the lucra­ gious system, a religious government. We tive and expanding heroin trade between want to create a sharia system. We want the Afghanistan and Tajikistan. But Naman­ model of Islam which has remained from gani was now a liability to the UTO, as his...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 31–40.
Published: 01 March 2003
... supplied the anti-Taliban United Front and heroin abusers in the five Central Asian (Northern Alliance). The Uzbekistan gov­ states. Pakistan is home to approximately ernment supported a militia of Uzbeks from 800,000 chronic heroin and opium users. Tajikistan and Afghanistan that had bases Iran...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 September 2017
... activities were considered haram . Until a few years ago, I had never heard of self-immolation and heroin addiction was virtually non-existent. We were taught to work and study hard; help our parents, siblings, and strangers; and waste no time on frivolous pursuits. My parents were strict with me and my...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 25–35.
Published: 01 December 2006
... billion fighting the drug war.17 percent of the cocaine and over half the The war has always been fought on two heroin that enters the United States comes fronts: on the supply side (preventing drugs from Latin America.M The economic cost of from entering the United States) and on illegal drug use...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 23–31.
Published: 01 June 2018
... an Israeli Phantom, a U.S.-made jet superior to his beloved MiG21. Applause erupts. He urges students to listen to their teachers and avoid heroin; he warns that conspirators will target them to destroy Egypt’s future. “IF THE ARMY WANTS TO EAT MY CHILDREN’S FOOD AND TAKE OVER MY HOME, I WILL STILL LOVE...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 59–65.
Published: 01 June 2005
... the heroes and heroines of 1919- ride the tiger of popular nationalism, so the This official view is literally inscribed in common argument ran, it decided to try to Tiananmen Square itself. At the base of the do the same thing again. Monument to the People’s Heroes, friezes By mid-April of this year...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 68–77.
Published: 01 June 2012
... in water resources. Indeed, with low production costs and easy export routes, the fertile soil of Helmand province provided the perfect growing conditions for poppy. Helmand became the epicenter of the Afghan heroin trade. Today, the province produces over half of the opium in the global drug trade...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 March 2002
... last November, reports indicated portedly managed to distribute heroin to that Namangani had been killed earlier in Soviet troops.) the month in the northern Afghan city of The best— if not necessarily most palat­ Kunduz, where IMU troops had fought able— way to nudge Uzbekistan in the di­...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 93–104.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Afghanistan, and a war economy fueled by heroin trafficking and weapons sales stoked a violent competition over resources. Karachi’s politics began to fracture along ethnic lines. The state was unable to adequately provide services, maintain infrastructure, or enforce regulations, and ethnic political parties...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of this process involves renouncing gangs, which in Singapore have Chinese origins and revolve around drugs, primarily heroin. Staff estimate that 40 percent of the prisoners here are active gang members and another 20 percent, sleeper members. Our guiding officer is especially excited about the peer-led anti...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 60–70.
Published: 01 March 2002
... from those sent forces in the fastness of Central Asia’s hid­ by its usual customers, workers from the In­ den valleys. Afghanistan was Europe’s prin­ dian subcontinent in the Middle East, and cipal heroin supplier until the Taliban more recently, in Europe and America. Any­ bowed...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 113–125.
Published: 01 September 2005
... the dilemma of what to do with the one that led to large-scale heroin smug­ functionaries, spies, and profiteers of the gling, a spate of political murders, and fi­ old regime. They can be left alone, brought nally the assassination of a prime minister. before truth commissions, made to undergo...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 11–27.
Published: 01 September 2002
... not so much as a love affair as a salvo in the Boycott movies casting Muslim heroes war on racism. The personal was consciously heroines political in my childhood home. Never work in Muslims’ offices and do My father never hesitated to express his...