Legalising the Drug Wars

A Regulatory History of UN Drug Control

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Where did the regulatory underpinnings for the global drug wars come from? This book is the first fully-focused history of the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the bedrock of the modern multilateral drug control system and the focal point of global drug regulations and prohibitions. Although far from the propagator of the drug wars, the UN enabled the creation of a uniform global legal framework to effectively legalise, or regulate, their pursuit. This book thereby answers the question of where the international legal framework for drug control came from, what state interests informed its development and how complex diplomatic negotiations resulted in the current regulatory system, binding states into an element of global policy uniformity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-02
Mått:157 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:302
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316512326

Utforska kategorier

Internationell rätt inom Juridik
Folkrätt inom Juridik
Brottslighet och kriminologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

John Collins is Director of Academic Engagement, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Vienna. He is also a Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, LSE Press. John's contemporary policy interests focus on the political economy of international drug control and the evolving dynamics on national and international policy reforms.

Recensioner i media

'Drug wars come not just from populist politicians or prohibitionists, but from a complex and contested international regulatory system more than a century in the making. John Collins gives us a lucid and subtly revisionist history of the international drug-control system, and explores its implications for current drug-policy debates. Based on prodigious archival research and years of engagement in the field, this book is indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the politics of global drug regulation and its consequences for our own time.' David T. Courtwright, author of Forces of Habit and The Age of Addiction

Innehållsförteckning

1. Drug diplomacy from the Opium Wars through the League of Nations, 1839–1939; 2. International drug control in wartime, 1939–1945; 3. Creating the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1945–1946; 4. Reconstructing drug control in Europe, Asia and the Middle East; 5. Old battles anew at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1946–1948; 6. Dividing up the global licit market, 1948–1953; 7. From the 1953 protocol to the 1961 single convention; 8. Assessing the legal legacy of the single convention.