The world geopolitics of drugs, 1998/1999
By: Ala[i]n Labrousse and Laurent Laniel (Observatoire geopolitique des drogues, Paris, France) ; revised by Alan A. Block.
Contributors: Laniel, Laurent.; Block, Alan A.; Observatoire géopolitique des drogues.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Drug traffic; Drug control
Notes: Translated from the French.
"The two previous OGD annual reports cover[ed] the periods 1995/1996 and 1997/1998"--P. 24. "This Annual report ... is the last report"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION; title: How to use the annual report; title: Trends for 1998/1999: The globalization of the trafficking economy; title: PART ONE: GLOBAL PROBLEMS; title: Money laundering in the South: The modernity of tradition; title: Offshore banking: Center of the economic world's attention; title: Opium problems: Estimation of illegal crops and diversion of legal crops; title: PART TWO: ASIA; title: Central Asia; title: Country reports; title: Afghanistan; title: Pakistan; title: Nepal; title: India; title: Burma; title: China; title: Vietnam; title: Cambodia; title: MAPS 1-4; title: PART THREE: EUROPE; title: Analyses; title: Italy: Evolving mafia and antimafia forces; title: News from the Italian mafias; title: Spain: Drug gateway to Europe; title: ETA, the police and drugs: Ambiguity in the fight against terrorism; title: The cannabis market in Paris; title: Ayahuasca: From the Amazon to the urban jungles; title: Country reports; title: Turkey; title: Russia; title: Lithuania; title: Poland; title: Czech Republic; title: Rumania; title: MAP; title: PART FOUR: THE AMERICAS; title: Analyses; title: The profitable poor: The economic and social impact of the war "on drugs" in the United States; title: Mexico: Laundering the political system; title: Colombia: War on drugs or on rebellion?; title: Argentina: The legacy of ten years of Peronist government; title: Bolivia: "Success Story" of the war on drugs; title: Country reports; title: Peru; title: Chile; title: Venezuela; title: Trinidad and Tobago; title: Dominican Republic - Haiti; title: Canada; title: MAPS 6-11; title: PART FIVE: AFRICA; title: Analyses; title: The geopolitical stakes of khat in Kenya; title: The cannabis industry in Lesotho; title: South Africa: Rainbow Mafia becomes entrenched; title: The Rainbow Mafia; title: Country reports; title: Algeria; title: Nigeria; title: Benin; title: Congo; title: Mauritius; title: MAPS 12-13.