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Drug problems present sharp challenges for policing and democracy in the European Union. Harmonisation of anti-trafficking measures contrasts with diversity of local policies on drug users. 'Open drug scenes' trigger innovative but often volatile responses. This collection presents vivid experiences of drug policy-making at city, regional and higher levels. For the future, beyond 1996, EU 'confederal' and 'intergovernmental' scenarios have distinct implications for drugs. Finally, international dimensions are explored - drug control through money laundering countermeasures, trade and development policies, security and EU enlargement.
List of contents
Preface - List of Contributors - Introduction; The Editors - PART 1: POLICING DRUGS AT LOCAL LEVEL - Copenhagen: a War on Socially Marginal People; J.Jepsen - London: 'Community Damage Limitation' through Policing; M.Lee - Hamburg: Handling an Open Drug Scene; H.Alpheis - Southern England, Drugs and Music: Policing the Impossible?; A.Fraser & M.George -PART 2: NATIONAL TRENDS IN DRUG CONTROL - The Netherlands: Tightening up of the Cafes Policy; H.Von Meyenfeldt - Sweden: Zero Tolerance wins the Argument?; L.Lenke & B.Ollson - Italy: 'Mafia-dominated Drug Market'?; A.Becchi - Denmark and the Nordic Union: Regional Pressures in Policy Development; L.Laursen - PART 3: EU INTERNAL POLICY AND DRUGS - The EU, Home Affairs and 1996: Intergovernmental Convergence or Confederal Diversity?; N.Dorn -Drug Control in a Federal System: Zurich, Switzerland; H.Fahrenkrug - Intergovernmental Cooperation on Drug Control: Debates on Europol; C.Fijnaut - PART 4: EU EXTERNAL DRUG POLICIES - Money Laundering, the Developed Countries and Drug Control: the New Agenda; E.Savona - Drug Trafficking, Laundering and Neo-Liberal Economics: Perverse Effects for a Developing Country; H.Campodonico - Borderline Criminology: External Drug Policies of the EU; N.Dorn - Bibliography - Index
About the author
Tony has lectured widely in developing countries and has been a consultant to several international agencies including the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Pacific Islands Development Program in Hawaii. He has written a number of specialized texts in the field of development economics and is Series Editor of Palgrave's Great Thinkers in Economics collection.
