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Cruel Harvest: US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade
Cruel Harvest: US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade
Cruel Harvest: US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade
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This book lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistan’s growing drug trade and the role played by the US military in its trajectory.

Where conventional accounts blame the Taliban for the expansion of drug production, Cruel Harvest shows that the US shares responsibility by supporting drug lords, refusing to adopt effective drug control policies and failing to crack down on drug money laundered through Western banks.

Julien Mercille argues that the best way to address drug problems is by reducing demand in consumer countries, not by conducting fruitless and damaging counter narcotics missions in Afghanistan.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPluto Press
Release dateDec 9, 2012
ISBN9781849647779
Cruel Harvest: US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade
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Julien Mercille

Julien Mercille is a lecturer in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has had articles published in Third World Quarterly, Geopolitics and Political Geography, amongst others.

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