Coercion, cash-crops and culture from insurgency to proto-state in Asia's opium belt

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited === This thesis is a comparative study of conflict and opium in the Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle, focusing in particular on Afghanistan-Pakistan and Burma. It takes a state building approach to analyze the formation and composition of o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merz, Andrew A.
Other Authors: Johnson, Thomas H.
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/4108