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Afghanistan: heroin and human trafficking are the only two sectors of the economy still thriving

Posted byJonathan Goodhand13th December 202113th December 2021Posted inBlog, Afghanistan

The trade in drugs and people are growing in importance as other sectors of Afghanistan’s economy contract or shut down and poverty deepens.

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Entangled lives: Drug assemblages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan

Posted byJonathan Goodhand29th November 202114th March 2022Posted inJournal Articles, Publications, Afghanistan

This Third World Quarterly article explores the lifeworld of drugs, following their journey from the farmers’ field to their arrival at the border with Tajikistan.

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Trading spaces: Afghan borderland brokers and the transformation of the margins

Posted byJonathan Goodhand16th November 202114th March 2022Posted inBooks/Book Chapters, Afghanistan

This chapter published in The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling focuses on brokers and brokerage in the context of cross border smuggling or illicit trade.

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Afghanistan: what the conflict means for the global heroin trade

Posted byJonathan Goodhand17th August 202113th December 2021Posted inBlog, Afghanistan

Jonathan Goodhand discusses how economic factors are shaping unfolding events, including the trade in opium and heroin.

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Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma

Posted byJonathan Goodhand13th April 202116th December 2021Posted inJournal Articles, Publications

This article develops the notion of a policy trilemma, showing the tensions and trade-offs between drugs, development and peacebuilding policy fields.

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Beyond the narco frontier: rethinking an imaginary of the margins

Posted byJonathan Goodhand13th April 202116th December 2021Posted inJournal Articles, Publications

The ‘narco-frontier’ is frequently invoked in policy and popular narratives about drugs and armed conflict as unruly and marginal. This paper asks why has this been the case. What ideological work does the imaginary perform and for whom? And what are the implications of an alternative imaginary of the margins?

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Policy frontiers: the drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma

Posted byJonathan Goodhand13th April 202110th May 2021Posted inPolicy Briefs, Publications

This policy brief presents the ‘Drugs-development-peacebuilding’ policy trilemma as a useful framework and tool for highlighting tensions and trade-offs between these three policy fields.

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Journeys to borderlands always seem to lead to unexpected surprises

Posted byJonathan Goodhand4th February 202113th April 2021Posted inBlog, Afghanistan

Jonathan Goodhand’s journey to a remote Afghan village, gave him a rare glimpse into the intricacies of borderland political struggles.

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In the world’s forgotten borderlands, the drug trade helps people survive – but at a cost

Posted byJonathan Goodhand14th August 202014th August 2020Posted inBlog, Afghanistan, Colombia, Myanmar

Conventional thinking about illicit drugs, development and violence are deeply flawed, here’s why.

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Three strategies to transform approaches to illicit drug economies

Posted byJonathan Goodhand3rd March 20203rd March 2020Posted inBlog

While the World Bank Fragility Forum 2020 was postponed, development leaders still need to rethink their approaches to illicit drugs. Here’s how.

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The historical role of opium and what it tells us about illicit economies today

Posted byJonathan Goodhand18th December 20193rd March 2020Posted inBlog

Jonathan Goodhand explores historical insights from two books and what they tell us about illicit economies today.

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Illicit drugs and peace: why the borderlands matter

Posted byJonathan Goodhand4th July 20195th July 2019Posted inBlog, Afghanistan, Colombia, Myanmar

The borderlands lie at the country margins, but are central to processes that generate war and peace.

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