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Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy / 2013 /
An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia.
This book addresses the great diversity and complexity of illegal trading across mainland Southeast Asia, focusing on five of its most pervasive phenomenon: drug trafficking, human trafficking, arms trafficking, wildlife and timber trafficking, and the trade in counterfeit goods and contraband...
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy (ed) / 2013 / I.B. Tauris.
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world’s key regions for the smuggling and trafficking of illegal goods. Armed conflict in the region has spurred an international trade in small arms, and organized nuclear smuggling rings are now believed to operate as well. "An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia" brings together a team of key researchers and cartographic specialists to provide a unique overview of the major forms of illegal trafficking in the region.
Piere-Arnaud Chouvy / 2013 /
Journal of Drug Issues.
Drug control policies and interventions, like any other policies and interventions, generate many unintended consequences. Most often, such consequences are mentioned without being defined or presented in a typology, and they are rarely explained in terms of causality. This article will stress how the existing work on the unintended consequences of drug control policies and interventions suffers from little or no definition and will then provide such a definition and a typology applied to three major interventions meant to achieve drug crop reduction—forced eradication, alternative development, and opium bans. In the end, it will explain how a typology of unintended consequences can help to better understand the failure and even the counterproductivity of some interventions. Differentiating between direct and collateral unintended consequences allows us to better attribute the occurring of unintended consequences to a specific intervention and/or to the intended consequence of the interventions.
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy / 2012 / Asie du Sud-Est 2012.
Entre l’Inde et la Chine l’Asie du Sud-Est continentale est depuis des décennies déjà un haut lieu de multiples trafics, qu’il s’agisse de drogue, de personnes, d’armes, d’espèces animales et végétales, ou encore d’objets de contrefaçon ou de contrebande de biens de consommation. Trafics de drogue et de personnes sont bien sûr parmi les plus importants de ces échanges illégaux, du fait du rôle de premier plan joué par la Birmanie dans la production illégale d’opiacés (opium, héroïne) et de stimulants de type amphétaminique (méthamphétamine) d’une part, et de l’importance du marché régional de la prostitution, en Thaïlande notamment, d’autre part...
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy / 2007 / Crime, Law and Social Change.
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 the global scene in order to improve understanding of how agricultural illicit drug economies may foster the emergence of intra-state conflicts, help prolong intra-state conflicts or, conversely, prevent some crises. The paper thereby examines the complex connections between agricultural illicit drug production and intra-state conflict in the all-important context of underdevelopment and globalisation.
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy / 2011 / International Journal of Environmental Studies.
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 between war economies and drug economies, in Afghanistan and elsewhere. It has also thrived on economic underdevelopment and poverty. Part of the problem is that illicit opium production largely outlives war and that economic development can only occur in countries and regions where peace prevails. What is needed to reduce poppy cultivation is broad and equitable economic development. Ignoring the causes of opium production or making them worse by increasing poverty through forced eradication, will compromise antidrug policies and stabilisation efforts.
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