... Faced with increasing drug-related mortality, complementing law enforcement and regional initiatives with a softer approach at home is the next logical step.
A Threat to National and Human Security: Developments and Continuities in the Afghan Drug Trade
Drug trafficking in Russia is far from being a recent problem. The drastic rise of organised crime in the tumultuous years that followed the fall of the USSR, as well as the newly opened and poorly controlled borders with former Soviet states, has facilitated the transnational ...
... retired senior naval officer, author of numerous publications on the problems of Islamic extremism in the Middle East, and worked for US diplomatic missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The discussion covered the issues of building trust between Russia and the United States as the countries with the greatest potential to successfully confront international challenges, namely the growth of drug trafficking (especially heroin black trading), the spread of weapons of mass destruction, of chemical and biological weapons, and their falling into the hands of terrorist groups. The participants of the meeting emphasized the need to establish a ...
... argued that European liberalisation is incompatible with continued prohibition in Russia and the East, the decline of consensus on drug policy ultimately creates potential for the discovery of more effective approaches to drug trafficking and abuse.[12] Drug trafficking in states such as Russia and Iran poses a serious threat to regional stability in a way that it does not in Western Europe or the United States. The adoption of blanket drug policies therefore ignores the specific problems that regions face in combatting drug abuse. As ...
