News
Drugs & (dis)order: Findings and future directions
Watch the recordings from the Drugs & (dis)order's final event to learn about the findings from four years of research, and listen to discussions on policy and practice at the interface of illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding.
Myanmar datasets
Four open access datasets from the Myanmar research.
Brokered rule: Militias, drugs and borderland governance in the Myanmar-China borderlands
This Journal of Contemporary Asia article discusses how the illegal drug trade has become integral to systems of brokered rule in northern Shan State, Myanmar.
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism
This Third World Quarterly article discusses how capitalism alters life at the nexus of drug production, trade and consumption in the borderlands of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar.
Entangled lives: conflict and illicit economies in Afghanistan
This animation tells the story of a smuggler on the border between Afghanistan and Iran.
Research Sites
The research programme will draw on empirical data from Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar
Afghanistan
Afghanistan is estimated to produce 90% of heroin consumed in the UK. We're working in three borderland Afghanistan regions.
Colombia
Since Colombia's 2016 peace agreement, coca cultivation has expanded. We're working in four Colombian borderland sites.
Myanmar
Myanmar is the second largest producer of illicit opium in the world. We're working in two Myanmar borderland states.
Recent Tweets
The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling, launched last week, includes our chapter on brokers in transnational trading networks in Nangarhar & Nimroz, Afghanistan. The book is Open Access (https://t.co/dLS23fvgeY), and you can watch the launch event here 👇
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New article: how has illegal drug trade become integral to brokerage arrangements between Myanmar Army & local militias in Shan state? Develops concept of 'coercive brokerage' #openaccess
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