International drug control: consensus fractured

"There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested and transitionary...

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Main Author: Bewley-Taylor, David R. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge University Press 2012
In:Year: 2012
Online Access: Cover (Verlag)
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Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
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Keywords:
Drogenpolitik
Drug control
Drug control > International cooperation
Drugs > Law and legislation
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1685384293
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Summary:"There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested and transitionary field of multinational cooperation. Employing a fine-grained and interdisciplinary approach, this book provides the first integrated analysis of the sources, manifestations and sometimes paradoxical implications of this divergence. The author develops an original explanatory framework through which to understand better the dynamic and tense intersection between policy shifts at varying levels of governance and the regime's core prohibitive norm. Highlighting the centrality of the harm reduction approach and tolerant cannabis policies to an ongoing process of regime transformation, this book examines the efforts of those actors seeking to defend the existing international control framework and explores rationales and scenarios which may lead to the international community moving beyond it"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XVI, 344 S. Ill. 280 mm x 150 mm
ISBN:9781107641280
9781107014978