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All items tagged NarcoticsOpen Think Tank ArticlesApril 4, 2011 | Countering Insurgency by Countering NarcoticsAmela C. Kraja: The security strategy in Afghanistan must increase counter-narcotics efforts and focus on reducing the financial means of development for the drug trade and the roots of the insurgency movement. It is crucial that the international community improve on the slow progress of the last decade. ... MoreJune 10, 2010 | Afghanistan: Misreading the Fields - AgainOlga Kolesnichenko: The Afghan economy is failing. As the international community and NATO strive to rescue the country, they should focus on developing agriculture. Outlawing poppy will solve nothing. New plants need to be introduced in the country, perhaps even genetically modified plants. ... MoreApril 30, 2010 | Vicious Cycle: An Analysis of the Role of Narcotics in Insurgent ViolenceJared D. Stancombe: In the absence of a formal economy and political stability, Afghans have turned to growing highly profitable narcotics. This narcotics economy, focused around opium, whose derivatives heroin and morphine that are sold in global black markets, allow the insurgents to create economic relationships with actors inside the opium economy. These relationships allow the neo-Taliban insurgency to create localized “shadow governments” and capture political space. ... MoreMay 16, 2008 | The Need to Nurture the Latin American-European RelationshipEckart von Klaeden: The “strategic partnership” between the EU and Latin America must be followed up with concrete and substantive political initiatives. The European Union, Latin America, and the United States must work towards a trilateral dialog. ... MoreMay 5, 2008 | Military Alone Cannot Solve Afghanistan's Woes
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