(FILES) In this photograph taken on April 19, 2016, an Afghan farmer harvests opium sap from a poppy field in the Chaparhar district of Nangarhar province. Afghanistan saw a 10 percent jump in opium cultivation this year, a sharp rise owing to favourable weather, growing insecurity and a drop in …
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Global Trends in Drugs Use
Various regions follow similar trends regarding the adoption of varied types of traditional and industrial drugs, as International forums report, as well as annual reports of the UN office on drugs and crime, indicated. The distinction lays in varied regional trends caused by different political, economic, security, and social situations. …
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As we elucidated “The Fragile States” in previous article, now we want to examine the relation between state fragility and organized crime. Finally, we evaluated the situation of each state based on fragile state index from 2011 to 2018. The current study focuses on “nexus of terrorist groups, fragile states, …
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“The Fragile State Index” is considered to be a brand new notion in political science and international relations, proposing effective devices for researchers to elucidate the various States’ performance in disparate fields. In recent years, the concept has become an indicator for the Fund for Peace, by which the performance …
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