Silk Road mafias : the political economy of drugs and state-building in post-Soviet Tajikistan

This study looks at the role of drug-related mafias in Tajikistan -a country that has undergone a `double transition' as a result of the break up of the Soviet Union and a protracted civil war -, and examines why they emerged as political, economic and social actors after 1991 and how they infl...

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Main Author: De Danieli, Filippo
Published: SOAS, University of London 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.545920