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The Drug Problem in the East: Warfare and Market Logic, by Michel Koutouzis
Russia, an empire, is interspersed with ethnie minorities, varions diasporas, political refugees, traditional autonomies and secret ancestral routes. Races, cultures and civilisations exist side-by-side forming relays from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia. In addition inter-ethnic wars, frontier disputes, fundamentalism, historic grudges and slights, create new networks enabling the drug problem to exacerbate these conflicts. The weakness of the State, political manoeuvring, the expansion of the private sector, market logic and the opening-up of the empire to the rest of the world make the drug problem and its means of communication particularly complex. It has moreover become a global problem independent of nationality and frontiers, subject to the rules of supply and demand, dumping, and exchange like any other successful product of the nineties. However the fact that it brings into contact radically different civilisations, attitudes and principles and that it undergoes a variety of transformations, means that it is a product very different from any other. It is simultaneously modem, traditional, universal and local and may be considered as a provocative reflection of our world.

Examines changing nature of international narcotics trafficking by organized criminal networks; view that national countermeasures have been inadequate. Summaries in English p. 432 and Spanish p. 446. Coca/cocaine, opium/heroin, cannabis/marihuana, and synthetic drugs.