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.

'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

• 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.

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.

'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

• 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.

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.

'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

• 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.