{"product_id":"rethinking-illicit-economies-in-opium-eric-d-u-gutierrez-9781032500393","title":"Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine: Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south. It exposes an important paradox: despite all the dangers and negative consequences of these criminal networks, in many cases, they also provide marginalised and excluded communities with important private sources of protection, investment, and employment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book reconstructs and compares socioeconomic contexts, criminal careers, and changes in farmgate prices of illicit coca and opium poppy crops in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Colombia, and Bolivia. It investigates the politics of strange bedfellows; informal bankers-without-suits providing cross-border financial services to the undocumented and the unbanked; the criminals without borders; and the mystery of illicit crop prices. The book challenges commonly held assumptions and casts new light on how relationships of conflict and accommodation are arranged and re-arranged in fluid, everchanging contexts, producing often paradoxical outcomes. It then suggests policy reforms and alternative approaches to drug policy, development aid, and peacebuilding work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearchers and students across development, peacebuilding, illicit economies, and conflict studies will find this book an important source of original research and analysis. It will also be useful for politicians, commentators, and public officials considering what to do differently in tackling illicit drug economies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric D. U. Gutierrez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032500395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032500393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Eric D. U. Gutierrez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44809762799871,"sku":"9781032500393","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca887afd-0651-4c0c-be25-c8d0949145ee.jpg?v=1707927406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rethinking-illicit-economies-in-opium-eric-d-u-gutierrez-9781032500393","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}