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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 70–75.
Published: 01 June 2002
... that has source of three of the most potent addiction- attracted little foreign investment, law en­ producing narcotics [opium and two opium forcement officials believe the constant ener­ derivatives1 But by the late 1950s, Mao gy, late-model sedans, gaudy jewelry, and had utilized...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 25–35.
Published: 01 December 2006
... and the resulting edge the social and economic roots of these lack of public safety; narcotics trafficking; problems, the remedies they prescribe focus terrorism; health and environmental risks; on symptoms more than causes. Since 2001, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; U.S. military assistance...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 75–82.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., a website that specialized in contraband drugs, narcotics, and weapons from a large number of competing vendors. Its owner masqueraded under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. In 2013, the FBI succeeded in arresting some of those they believed responsible, subsequently shutting down the website so that Tor...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 31–40.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Taliban, Pakistan tried to redress its insecu­ in Kashmir, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz­ rity relative to India, curb Pashtun national­ stan, and Uzbekistan. Networks of narcotics ism, and create a corridor for trade with traffickers collaborating with armed groups, Central Asia. link Afghan poppy...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 71–80.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the “medicine” it is to be found only in the oblivion brought they were taking. Two of them, brother and about by wine and in the artificial sleep in­ sister, were the children of a broken man duced by opium and similar narcotics. Alas, who had been a big shot under the Shah. the effects...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 March 2005
... derives from hash-shashun, meaning hashish, the narcotic allegedly employed by an Islamic order to drug potential assassins in Persia and Syria. Astutely, according to ac­ counts left by Marco Polo and by eleventh-century Crusaders, the order’s grand masters arranged for drugged youths...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 21–25.
Published: 01 June 2000
... the barrel of a gun, or the blade that without democracy and civil society, no of a machete. But insecurity can also come nation and no region can be truly secure. from dictators, corrupt politicians, crime The OAU Heads of State Summit adopted a lords, and narcotics syndicates. It can come...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 2–14.
Published: 01 September 2001
... vote. Although President records in realms like human rights, anti­ Clinton signed the Rome Statute of the terrorism, and narcotics interdiction. Most ICC in December 2000, his successor has controversial have been extraterritorial sanc­ no intention of submitting it to the Senate. tions, like...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 31–37.
Published: 01 September 2013
... narcotics, and the make-up of a residual NATO presence, if any. These problems must be remedied over time if Afghanistan is to move slowly toward a more stable and representative system with a better standard of living for its people. Should the country find itself in the midst of a civil war, however...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 85–91.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and artifacts; the ethical dimension. Legally, prohibitions are unambiguous, every bit as categorical as laws against traffick­ ing in narcotics, yet even more difficult to enforce. The United States led the way during 8 6 WORLD POLICY JOURNAL...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 17–24.
Published: 01 March 2006
... as a national movement, but they reconstruction projects but for core operat­ have prepared themselves for a long strug­ ing expenditures, such as army, police, and gle. A central narrative among Afghanistan’s government salaries. It is among the bottom spoilers— militia leaders, narcotics traffick­ 1...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 39–46.
Published: 01 March 2000
... the a disturbing but mostly innocuous political Atoms for Peace program, many scientists exercise. But the repetitive insistence on be­ from South Asia underwent tutorials in ing indigenous in this context has become Western programs. something of a narcotic mantra, or a collec­ Even today, India still...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 83–90.
Published: 01 December 2004
... on board tion Security Initiative, the still embryonic should diplomacy fail and a more forceful plan to cordon off the North and interdict response become necessary. But convinced all shipments of missiles, weapons, fissile that diplomacy will be futile— or perhaps materials, narcotics...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 48–55.
Published: 01 June 2000
... training and equipping counter­ Human Spirit, first published in 1992, with narcotics battalions. Will American mili­ a new foreword, and he has reiterated his tary advisers be pulled into a Vietnam-like demand that the internal combustion en­ struggle? Then there are the more tradi­ gine...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 June 2001
... to reach Shang­ Iraq to suppressing the narcotics trade and hai), suggest that two fast-growing regional opposing the Taliban of Afghanistan. An superpowers in Asia are jostling for position. Athenian America would recognize the eco­ nomic burden of exploiting Caspian oil...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 59–67.
Published: 01 March 2003
... and the Veil,” New York Times, October 19, 2001. 12. For a discussion of the gender aspect of drug 6. For examples of women’s responses to such trafficking, see Nancy Lubin, Alex Klaits, and Igor treatment in a number of countries, see Jan Good­ Barsegian, Narcotics Interdiction in Afghanistan...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 61–70.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... dio and television repair, chauffeuring— In collaboration with his professor, he wrote which affords them an opportunity to find up his experiences for the Mexico City monthly employment. Others with ties to narcotics magazine Nexos, which published them in two or stolen-goods distribution...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 77–86.
Published: 01 December 2006
... the south talk of government death squads of Yala. “Bad people give amphetamines and roaming the jungles and executing Muslim narcotics to young boys and make them at­ schoolteachers and suspected ringleaders. tack the people. Such a shame.” Meanwhile, the military blames the killings Later, I meet...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
... incentives to patients who stay clean. In Singapore, on the other hand, what minimal rehab options there are might as well be direct pipelines to prison. Should addicts seek help from a doctor, that doctor is legally obliged to submit their details to the Central Narcotics Bureau. Once this happens, they’re...
FIGURES
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 13–23.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of extortion, protection, anonymous Cayman Island accounts (one in and narcotics. Techniques now are more so­ the name of “Bonaparte whence it moved phisticated— the latest innovation is setting back and forth between Zurich and London up your own dummy bank on the Internet— in search of the highest...