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The Illicit Drug Industry as a Security Policy Challenge

Author(s): Cornelius Friesendorf
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Date of publication: 25 May 2007
Volume number: 2
Issue number: 13
Format: PDF
Pages: 3
URL: www.ssn.ethz.ch/forschung/css_analysen/
Series: CSS Analysis in Security Policy

Description: This article discusses the impact of the illicit drug industry on international security policy. The author details how drug production, trafficking, and consumption undermines not only the security of states and individuals, but also adversely affects the global economy and environment. The article states that while many drug sector reformists argue in favor of a shift towards a harm reduction approach, no international consensus is in the offing and general drug problems continue to increase.

General note: © 2007 Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich

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