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1 results foundAuthor: Lamanna, Carlo Title: Drug Trafficking and Security Issues in Afghanistan Summary: Drug production in Afghanistan is a problem that for the moment traces directly to the European citizens’ demand for heroin. Opium cultivation and production have a huge role in the Afghan economy, but the magnitude of its trade goes beyond Afghanistan as more than 80% of the export value reaches the drug trafficking networks. Opium and opiates’ traffickers follow three major routes from Afghanistan to Western Europe, among which the route through Pakistan is really a favoured option. In such an economy, there are actors at the village level, traffickers at regional level, and transnational smuggling enterprises, all working in a pattern of corruption to evade regulatory mechanisms. There are security implications for the western countries’ interests that wish for a stable Afghanistan in a stabilized region. The drug trade across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is not only challenging state control but it is also reinforcing linkages between drug traffickers, criminal groups, and insurgents. Traffickers and insurgents do not necessarily share the same aims, but sometimes it is difficult to draw a clear line of division between them. The ways and means that such networks use to finance insurgency and terrorism in the region through the opiates’ trade require attention and precise strategies to fight them. Eventually, the drug trafficking is a world financial problem. Reducing the drug demand from the markets and eradicating the opiates’ production, as well as disrupting the link between them, require equal attention, and none of them can be underestimated or postponed. President Obama’s counternarcotics policy emphasizes the importance of interdiction and alternative development, and eliminates any U.S. role in eradication efforts. It is the reduction of the belligerent groups’ strength that comes first. Nevertheless, the new strategy also assures the necessary basis for substantial reductions in the size and impacts of the illicit economy in Afghanistan. However, without coordinated mechanisms to fight regional traffickers, the local interdiction efforts could result in unintended consequences of raising the retail price of illegal drugs. Efforts to limit the insurgents’ funds must include measures against money laundering that focus on the global. It is sensible to look forward to having the US and EU in a complementary role to fight the wide and fragmented drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe, in which transnational police operations can parallel and gradually take over the current military operations in Afghanistan. Details: United Kingdom: Royal College of Defence Studies, 2010. 38p. Source: Seaford House Paper 2010: Internet Resource: Accessed February 10, 2012 at http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B75962C5-EB34-4189-83AF-3E381C75FC59/0/SHP2010LAMANNA.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Afghanistan URL: http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B75962C5-EB34-4189-83AF-3E381C75FC59/0/SHP2010LAMANNA.pdf Shelf Number: 124074 Keywords: Border Security (Afghanistan and Pakistan)Drug Control Policy (Afghanistan)Drug Trafficking (Afghanistan)Opium |