{"id":1779,"date":"2022-05-25T19:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:54:24","slug":"narco-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/publications\/narco-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Narco-Insecurity, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Convergence of the Narcotics Underworld and Extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Its Global Proliferation<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Author <\/td>David R. Winston<\/td><\/tr>
Editors<\/td>Victoria Jones, Marcus Andreopoulos, Thomas Hader<\/td><\/tr>
Released<\/td>2022<\/td><\/tr>
Language<\/td>English <\/td><\/tr>
NATO ISBN<\/td>978-92-845-0221-9<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Synopsis<\/h2>\n

The central aim of this book is to analyse the growth of the narcotics industry stemming from Afghanistan as well as Pakistan and the nexus that has formed between narcotics trafficking and terrorism\/extremism. With the West\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan precipitating the Taliban takeover of the country, the future for Afghanistan, and the Afghan narcotics industry, is uncertain. The Taliban have long used narcotics as their main source of revenue. Without the poppy crop, they may never have grown to be the massive organisation that they are today that was capable of toppling the Ghani government. Through examining the history of narcotics and its connection to terrorist groups, this book identifies how the world fell down this perilous path, and offers possible solutions to deal with this new dynamic. <\/p>\n

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Table of Contents<\/h2>\n

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Author<\/p>\n

Editors<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/p>\n

Chapter Outlines <\/strong><\/p>\n

Literature Review<\/p>\n

Chapter One \u2013 Planting the Seed: Opium\u2019s Origins in Afghanistan <\/strong><\/p>\n

Afghan Independence and the Dependence on Opium<\/p>\n

Afghanistan\u2019s Shift to an Opium Economy<\/p>\n

Early Signs of the Illicit Narcotics Market in Afghanistan<\/p>\n

One Step Forward, 20 Steps Back<\/p>\n

Afghanistan\u2019s Soviet Realignment<\/p>\n

Daoud\u2019s Failed Gamble and the Soviet-backed Coup<\/p>\n

Chapter Two \u2013 The Puppet Masters and the Tracking Pipeline <\/strong><\/p>\n

Enter the Taliban<\/p>\n

The Central Asia Dynamic<\/p>\n

The Haqqani Network<\/p>\n

Bhutto\u2019s Mission<\/p>\n

Chapter Three \u2013 Birth of the Narco-State <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Failed Karzai Experiment<\/p>\n

Endemic Corruption<\/p>\n

The Musharraf Agenda<\/p>\n

Chapter Four \u2013 The Terror Racket <\/strong><\/p>\n

Formal \/ Informal Channels<\/p>\n

D-Company<\/p>\n

Narco-Terror Convergence<\/p>\n

The Hawala System<\/p>\n

Crypto<\/p>\n

Chapter Five \u2013 Blazing a Trail: The Afghan Drug Tracking Pipeline <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Northern Route<\/p>\n

The Balkan Route<\/p>\n

The Southern Route<\/p>\n

Chapter Six \u2013 The Modern Narcotics Economy <\/strong><\/p>\n

Opium\u2019s Effect on the Agricultural Economy<\/p>\n

Environmental Impacts on the Opium Economy<\/p>\n

The Vicious Cycle of Insecurity and Agricultural Decline<\/p>\n

Opium Market Volatility and the Afghan economy<\/p>\n

COVID-19 and the resurgence of the Opium Economy<\/p>\n

The Symbiotic Relationship of Warlords and Opium<\/p>\n

The Lure and Viability of the Drug Tracking Economy<\/p>\n

Opium Tracking as a Franchise Industry<\/p>\n

Insurgent Groups – The Entrepreneurs of the Opium Industry<\/p>\n

Severing the Link<\/p>\n

Threats on the Horizon<\/p>\n

Chapter Seven \u2013 Afghanistan\u2019s Collapse and the Future of Counternarcotics <\/strong><\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Convergence of the Narcotics Underworld and Extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Its Global Proliferation Author David R. Winston Editors Victoria Jones, Marcus Andreopoulos, Thomas Hader Released 2022 Language English NATO ISBN 978-92-845-0221-9 Synopsis The central aim of this … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}