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A Typology of the Unintended Consequences of Drug Crop Reduction

Piere-Arnaud Chouvy / 2013 /
Journal of Drug Issues.

Drug control policies and interventions, like any other policies and interventions, generate many unintended consequences. Most often, such consequences are mentioned without being defined or presented in a typology, and they are rarely explained in terms of causality. This article will stress how the existing work on the unintended consequences of drug control policies and interventions suffers from little or no definition and will then provide such a definition and a typology applied to three major interventions meant to achieve drug crop reduction—forced eradication, alternative development, and opium bans. In the end, it will explain how a typology of unintended consequences can help to better understand the failure and even the counterproductivity of some interventions. Differentiating between direct and collateral unintended consequences allows us to better attribute the occurring of unintended consequences to a specific intervention and/or to the intended consequence of the interventions.

Agricultural Drug Economies: Cause or Alternative to Intra-State Conflicts?

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy / 2007 / Crime, Law and Social Change.

Through case studies selected among the world’s main drug-producer countries and regions (Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma, Colombia, Morocco, Peru, and West Africa) this paper depicts the global scene in order to improve understanding of how agricultural illicit drug economies may foster the emergence of intra-state conflicts, help prolong intra-state conflicts or, conversely, prevent some crises. The paper thereby examines the complex connections between agricultural illicit drug production and intra-state conflict in the all-important context of underdevelopment and globalisation.

Morocco said to produce nearly half of the world’s hashish supply

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy / 2005 / Jane's Intelligence Review.

In the first of two reports on hashish production and trafficking in the Rif area of Morocco, Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy examines the cultural, political and economic factors that have engendered cannabis cultivation in the area.

De la géopolitique des drogues illicites

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy & Laurent Laniel / 2004 / Hérodote.

Introduction du numéro 112 d'Hérodote consacré à la "géopolitique des drogues illicites".

Drug Production and Trade

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy / 2003 / Encyclopedia of World Environmental History.

Since the first drugs – psychoactive substances that alter states of consciousness or increase metabolic performance – were found in the plant world, humans have interacted with plants from which drugs are derived in countless relationships between plants and society and between nature and culture.

Introduction (dossier drogue et politique)

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy & Guillermo Aureano / 2001 / Cemoti.

Ce dossier est le fruit de réflexions engagées au Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) dans le cadre d'un séminaire animé par Semih Vaner. Les réunions se sont déroulées d'octobre 1999 à décembre 2000, lorsqu'une journée d'étude a réuni la plupart des participants, qui ont ainsi pu communiquer les résultats de leurs recherches à un public plus large. C'est le vaste thème des relations entre drogue et politique qui constituait la problématique centrale de ces discussions. Si le terme «drogue » désigne de prime abord un produit, nos travaux ont plutôt porté sur les enjeux de pouvoir qui conditionnent actuellement la production, le commerce et la consommation de ce type de substances illicites. Autrement dit, nous nous sommes attachés plus à examiner les dimensions politiques de la drogue elle même que les activités proprement économiques qui caractérisent sa production ou sa diffusion, qu'elles relèvent de l'agriculture, du trafic ou de l'usage.