Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other opiates of nearly 16 million users. The production and trafficking of opiates have caused crime, disease, and social distress throughout the world, leading many nations to invest billions of dollars trying to suppress the industry. The failure of their efforts has become a central policy concern. Can the world heroin supply actually be cut, and with what consequences? The result of a five-year-long research project involving extensive fieldwork in six Asian countries, Colombia, and Turkey, this book is the first systematic analysis of the contemporary world heroin market, delving into its development and structure, its participants, and its socio-economic impact. It provides a sound and comprehensive empirical base for concluding that there is little opportunity to shrink the global supply of heroin in the long term, and explains why production is concentrated in a handful of countries--and is likely to remain that way. On the basis of these findings, the authors identify a key set of policy opportunities, largely local, and make suggestions for leveraging them. This book also offers new insights into market conditions in India, Tajikistan, and other countries that have been greatly harmed by the production and trafficking of illegal opiates. A deft integration of economics, sociology, history, and policy analysis, The World Heroin Market provides a rigorous and vital look into the complex--and resilient--global heroin trade.

The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut? (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

Business & Money

Reuter, Peter

PAOLI, Letizia

Greenfield, Victoria A.

Economics

Oxford University Press

This book examines the principle of 'harm' as a basis for crime-control policy and the prioritization of criminalized activities, as well as providing a systematic, evidence-based framework to assess the harms of crime, to improve the allocation of resources to crime prevention and law enforcement.

Assessing the Harms of Crime: A New Framework for Criminal Policy (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

What has the Army learned about risk from its experience using contractors in the Balkans?

Risk Management and Performanace in the Balkans Support Contract

History

Military

RAND Corporation

This report documents the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute1s recommendations in 2004 to the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development for the design and business and implementation plans for its Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). For the design and plans, the authors tailored the best practices of various institutions to the foundation1s vision for QNRF and to Qatar1s needs, challenges, and opportunities.

Design of the Qatar National Research Fund: An Overview of the Study Approach and Key Recommendations (Technical Report (RAND))

Knopman, Debra

Bloom, Gabrielle

Balkovich, Edward

Talley, Eric

This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing how this presence contributes to assurance, deterrence, responsiveness, and security cooperation goals.

Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits

Halliday, John

Peltz, Eric

Frelinger, David R.

Sollinger, Jerry M.

McNerney, Michael J.

Eaton, Derek

Lostumbo, Michael J.

Mills, Patrick

Nardulli, Bruce R.

Worman, Stephen M.

Management & Leadership

Identifies drivers of opium poppy cultivation in southern Afghanistan and assesses effects of programs to promote rural development, eradicate opium poppies, or otherwise create incentives for farmers to cultivate less opium poppy.

Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan (National Security Research Division)

Oliker, Olga

Chandler, Nathan

Crane, Keith

Bond, Craig A.

Luoto, Jill E.

This report documents the Federal Voting Assistance Program’s efforts to align its strategy and operations to better serve its mission and stakeholders, and strengthen its capacity to set its own course, greet change, and communicate its role in the voting community. The report shows the potential for substantial, timely change in a highly collaborative working relationship, rooted in a systematic and analytically grounded research design.

The Federal Voting Assistance Program and the Road Ahead: Achieving Institutional Change Through Analysis and Collaboration

Adamson, David M.

Shelton, Shoshana R.

Davis II, John S.

Business

Policymakers have increased emphasis on national security risks deriving from globalization of weapon system supply chains. This report addresses the challenges the U.S. Air Force faces in mitigating the effects of these risks and suggests ways to improve how it addresses such risks in source selection and other decisions.

Managing Risk in Globalized Supply Chains

Carter, Phillip

Shokh, Yuliya

Mayer, Lauren A.

Eden, Rick

O'Connell, Caolionn

Hastings Roer, Elizabeth

Pfeifer, Spencer

McKeon, Jake

Mondschein, Jared

Ashby, Mark

Many U.S. government agencies rely on nonprofit federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) for independent expertise in systems engineering and integration, study and analysis, and research and development. In this report, the authors discuss insights drawn from academic literature and practitioner guidance that are applicable to the effective oversight, management, and performance assessment of FFRDCs.

Performance Management and Assessment of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers: Lessons from Academic Literature and Practitioner Guidance

Cherney, Samantha

Werber, Laura

Evans, Sandra Kay

Colabella, Lisa Pelled

Getting More of What You Need: A Guide for Developing a Stronger Performance Review Process for Systems Engineering Support

Steiner, Colby P.

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