Illegal Trades Across National Borders (Introduction to An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia) Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy  in An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia: The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia  Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy (Ed). April 2013, I.B. Tauris / Irasec, London, pp.
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          An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia: The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia Edited by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy. With articles by David Capie, Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, Vanda Felbab-Brown, David Feingold, Bertil Lintner. Maps (32) by Geneviève Decroix (GeoAtlas base maps). April 2013, I.B. Tauris, London, 256
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          A Typology of the Unintended Consequences of Drug Crop Reduction  Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy Journal of Drug Issues First published on December 11, 2012 as doi:10.1177/0022042612467009.  Volume 43, Issue 2, April 2013, pp. 216 – 230 (8,330 words / 56,000 signs). Full text in PDF ABSTRACT Drug control policies and interventions, like
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Des trafics en Asie du Sud-Est continentale Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy in Asie du Sud-Est 2012 – Les événements majeurs de l’année Sous la direction de Benoît de Tréglodé, Jérémy Jammes Paris, Irasec-Les Indes savantes, 2012, pp. 41-54.   Entre l’Inde et la Chine l’Asie du Sud-Est continentale est depuis des décennies déjà un haut lieu de
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Southeast Asia’s Thriving Drug Trade Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy World Politics Review, 25 October 2011.   From the early 1950s until 1990, when Afghanistan’s opium production surpassed that of Myanmar, most of the world’s illicit opium originated in mainland Southeast Asia. This is partly because the region’s rugged hills and mountains, heavy monsoon rains and lack of
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Finding an Alternative to Illicit Opium Production in Afghanistan, and Elsewhere Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy International Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol. 68 N° 3, pp. 373-379.   Abstract Prohibition attempts have failed for over a century, as the case of Afghanistan shows. There are many and complex reasons for this. Illicit opium production has benefited from synergies
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Illegal Trades Across National Borders of Mainland Southeast Asia Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy in Le Roux P., Baffie J., Beullier G. (Eds), The Trade in Human Beings for Sex in Southeast Asia, Bangkok, White Lotus Press, 2010, pp. 305-326.   Mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina—as it has long been known due to its position between India and China—has
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Insécurité alimentaire et production illicite d’opium en Asie Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy Annales de géographie, n° 673, mai – juin 2010, pp. 229-247.   Mots-clés : Opium, pavot, insécurité, autosuffisance, vivrier, économie, Asie, Afghanistan, Birmanie, Laos Résumé: La production illicite d’opium en Asie a longtemps bénéficié des synergies qui existaient entre économie de guerre et économie des drogues illicites.
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Opium et développement alternatif en Asie : quel bilan ? Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy Revue Tiers Monde, n° 199, juillet – septembre 2009, pp. 611-625.   Mots-clés : Opium, pavot, économie, agriculture, développement, substitution, éradication, Asie. Résumé: La production illicite mondiale d’opium n’a jamais été aussi importante qu’au cours des années 2000, en dépit d’un siècle de prohibition mondiale
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Agricultural Drug Economies: Cause or Alternative to Intra-State Conflicts? Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy (CNRS-Prodig), Laurent Laniel (Inhes) [1] Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 48, N° 3-5, December 2007, pp. 133-150    Abstract: Through case studies selected among the world’s main drug-producer countries and regions (Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma, Colombia, Morocco, Peru, and West Africa) this paper depicts
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