A State Built on Sand: How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

by David Mansfield

Book Overview

Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1.

The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded development in poppy-growing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190608315
• ISBN13: 9780190608316
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"