Publications

Elliot Brennan and Christopher O´ Hara

Rebel involvement in drug trafficking is broadly found to prolong and intensify civil wars. Being an illicit good with strong demand, high profit margins, limited barriers to entry, and few […]

Bert Edström

This paper examines Japan’s policy towards methamphetamine (Japanese: hiropon). Opium has been used in Japan for medicinal purposes since 1722. However, it was strictly controlled. The result was that drug […]

Walter Kegö, Aïssata Maïga and Jeanette Lindberg

The increased prevalence of the drug “Spice” is a concern for European policymakers. The authors put forward the case that stronger EU cooperation on the issue, more funding for research […]

Walter Kegö, Jeanette Lindberg and Aïssata Maïga

Narkotikaindustrin är en bransch som inte bara har en negativ påverkan på människor och hälsan. Vid produktion, transport och distribution av narkotika förstörs miljön genom kemisk förorening, skogsskövling som hotar […]

Sol Torres and Niklas Swanström

An estimated 30 million people are subject to modern day slavery, including forced labor and sexual exploitation. Moreover, the trafficking of human beings is one of the fastest growing transnational […]

Elliot Brennan

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s statement on Wednesday that he wants to expand operations to Myanmar and the Indian subcontinent will likely result in a new wave of violence. But […]

Elizabeth Tompkins and Aïssata Maïga

West Africa is rapidly evolving from a cocaine transit corridor from Latin America to Europe into an independent methamphetamine production and distribution center. This policy brief by ISDP’s Transnational Threats […]

Walter Kegö and Aïssata Maïga

Drug production is a significant factor in widespread environmental degradation, yet a lack of reliable data makes it difficult to pinpoint the extent of this damage. Future research should be […]

Bert Edström

While having witnessed three so-called epidemics in its postwar history, the prevalence of drug abuse in Japan is in fact remarkably low compared to most other countries and constitutes a […]

Fred Nyberg and Erik Leijonmarck

Vuxenvärlden har misslyckats kapitalt med att kommunicera varför cannabis är farligt och varför det bör vara förbjudet. För att vända utvecklingen och inte riskera ungas psykiska hälsa krävs att vuxna […]