THE IMPACT OF OPIUM PRODUCTION ON LEVELS OF TERRORIST VIOLENCE IN AFGHANISTAN (original) (raw)
The illicit narcotics industry in Afghanistan dominates the economy and pervades all aspects of the international heroin market. In a country devoid of many other natural resources, this beacon of economic opportunity has encouraged the evolution of a triangular relationship between the Taliban, insurgents and organised criminals that seeks to collectively undermine the state in order to benefit from the cultivation, production, processing and trafficking of drugs. This investigation will conduct a quantitative analysis of country-level data pertaining to the production of opium and the level of terrorist violence which will enable an assessment of the merits of integrating counter-narcotics operations into the heart of counter-terrorist policy. It will conclude that there is a high degree of correlation between opium production and terrorist violence and posits that the deleterious effects of the opiate economy can be tackled only through sustained and multinational long-term action.
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