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Cocaine traffickers develop new routes from Barzil / Wright, Joanna

Wright, Joanna	Journal Article
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2006.

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Brazil ; Drugs Traffickeing ; Cocaine

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ID: 188016

Cows, Charcoal, and Cocaine: Al-Shabaab’s Criminal Activities in the Horn of Africa / Petrich, Katharine

Petrich, Katharine	Journal Article
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Contrary to historical terrorism scholarship, terrorist groups can strategically diversify into a variety of criminal activities without losing their core ideology or support among the civilian population. This pattern is demonstrated by the evolutionary arc of al-Shabaab, which grew from a small subset of Somalia’s Islamic Courts Union to the most violent political actor in the Horn of Africa, able to conduct terrorist attacks as far afield as Kenya, Djibouti, and Ethiopia. Al-Shabaab has been highly successful in creating a narrative of truth and justice provision while simultaneously exploiting the Somali population and engaging in criminal activity. For the group, criminal activity and crime networks serve two primary purposes: as a funding mechanism and as an avenue for recruitment. Using ethnographic fieldwork and process tracing, I find that the group’s criminal activities throughout the Horn of Africa have made the group significantly more resilient to counterterrorism and counterinsurgency campaigns, extending both its lifespan and operational capability.

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Cocaine ; Charcoal ; Cows ; Al-Shabaab’s Criminal Activities in the Horn of Africa

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ID: 157719

Decolonising drugs in Asia: the case of cocaine in colonial India / Mills, James

Mills, James	Journal Article
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This article examines a drugs trade in Asia that has been largely forgotten by historians and policy-makers, that in cocaine. It will briefly trace some of the contours of this commerce and the efforts to control it. It will also assess how successful these efforts were. The article is designed to contribute fresh perspectives on recent controversies in the historiography of drugs in Asia to argue that the agendas and agency of consumers are central to understanding why markets have formed there for psychoactive substances in the modern period.

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South Asia ; Cocaine ; Agency ; Control ; Consumption ; Colonial

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ID: 069095

Morales faces challenge of limiting cocaine production in Boliv / McDermott, Jeremy

McDermott, Jeremy	Journal Article
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2006.

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Drugs Trade ; Drugs trafficking ; Bolivia ; Cocaine

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ID: 096487

New cocaine cowboys: how to defeat Mexico's drug cartels / Bonner, Robert C

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2010.

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Mexico ; Cocaine ; Drug Cartels ; Cowboys

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