Opium

Not many people can say they spent their childhood following the opium trade around the world. Yet this was the trajectory of Hervé Lemahieu, who I’d like to introduce you to this week. Hervé is director … South America; then, a few years later, to Myanmar, where the Golden Triangle is the world’s biggest opium producer. “My dad later headed up the counter narcotics effort in Afghanistan but by that point I …

can say they spent their childhood following the opium trade around the world. Yet this was the trajectory … where the Golden Triangle is the world’s biggest opium producer. “My dad later headed up the counter narcotics …

This paper studies technology absorption worldwide in the late nineteenth century. We construct several novel datasets to test the idea that the codification of technical knowledge in the vernacular was …

aftermath of China’s ignominious defeat in the First Opium War (1839-1842) that Japan needed a strategy to … p. 157). The fate of China in the wake of the Opium Wars loomed large in Japanese thinking. After the … in 1884, still recovering from the chaos of the Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion, could only raise 114 …

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the country faced the threat of the U. [...] In the Energy White Paper (Agency for Natural Resources and Energy 2023) …

significant interests in the oceans, symbolized by the Opium War of 1840, which led to the colonial partition … power in the "history of humiliation since the Opium War”. Xi Jinping has announced his "Chinese Dream" …

Afghanistan’s turbulent checkpoint history Checkpoints and the transit taxes that can be levied at them have been central to the vagaries of Afghan state formation and conflict—and are crucial to …

illegal taxes on the cultivation of opium poppies and duties on opium exports as well as revenue from smuggling … Additionally, he allegedly imposed heavy taxes on opium transportation across bridges connecting the Helmand … (2017). Understand Control and Influence: What Opium Poppy and Tax Reveal about the Writ of the Afghan …

Although there are potential security and economic benefits for Moscow to be gained from closer ties to Afghanistan, they will be difficult to achieve.

is not an appealing place to make a home. While opium production ballooned as the Taliban was establishing …

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la diminution de 95 % de la culture du pavot à opium en 2023 en raison de l’interdiction de ces activités …

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62. Following the 95 per cent decrease in opium poppy cultivation in 2023 due to the de facto authorities’ … further discouraging the cultivation and sale of opium. However, evidence from the field indicates ongoing … February and April, the national average price for dry opium increased by 0.8 per cent, from $746 to $751 per …

New working paper series From Afghanistan and Yemen and from Mali to Somalia, checkpoints are central to dynamics of armed conflict, funding insurgents, driving violence and shaping governance by various …

Mansfield, D. (2013). Drugs and (dis) order. The opium economy, political settlements and statebuilding …

DPG is deeply committed to the growth of India’s national power and purpose, the security and prosperity of the people of India and India’s contributions to the global public good. …

the Taliban’s eradication of poppy fields.13 The opium ban, imposed in April 2022, has devastated the livelihoods … per- hectare income from wheat was $770, while opium yielded some US$10,000.14 The UN reported that in … in 2023 alone, the first full year of the opium ban's enforcement, farmers' total income from selling … https://www.dawn.com/news/1831782. 14 Afghanistan Opium Survey 2023. https://www.unodc.org/documents/crop- …

While on a visit to Heilongjiang Province in September 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on the nation to mobilize "new quality productive forces" (Xin Zhi Sheng Chan Li ) …

response to the trauma of China’s defeats in the Opium Wars of 1839�1842 and 1856�1860. The Self- Strengtheners …