Transcript Narcotics Who has a drug problem?

Narcotics
Who has a drug problem?
Why are drugs an IR Issue?
 Trade
 Control efforts
 IGOs
Control approaches
 Discourage Demand
 Interdict Supply
 Discourage Production
Regional specialties
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SE Asia opium and derivatives
Mid East
hashish
Central America Marijuana
S. America cocaine
Asia: Golden Triangle
 Laos
Burma
Thailand
 85% world opium
 Burma 70% world
heroin
Mid-East
 Lebanon
 PLO and PFLP links
 Syrian government too
86% global marijuana
Halved acreage since 1990
Cut opium by 1/3
Transit route for 70% Colombian
cocaine
Peru: $500-$700m
20% legal exports
Equador: most coca leaf
Columbia: $800-$1000m
Bolivia: $250m
25% foreign exchange
60-90% exports
4.3m/7m workers
Demand
 Still strong in US
 $50bn pa 1988-91
 Gives US incentive to provide
UNILATERALLY collective good?
 Shift from interdiction to eradication
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$2.2bn spent by Bush
Factors vs DEA
 Revenue needs
 Lack of alternatives
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Coffee poor substitute
 Corruption & violence
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1,000s public officials in Columbia
 Resentment of US role
UN
 UN DCP
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International Drug Control Program
 UN CND
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commission on narcotic drugs
Advises & coordinates
 UN INCB
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International Narcotics Control Board
Implements treaties
UN GA
 1990 17th Special Session
 Global Program of Action
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Monitored by UN CND
 “Decade vs Drug Abuse” 1991>
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Recognised link to development
Recommended targeting kids
Impact
 Little backing for crop substitution
 Progress on money laundering
 Progress on training
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US Bureau of International Narcotics Matters
(BINM)
Webpage assessment
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Research effort
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