Drugs in the UN system: the unwritten history of the 1998 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs

Jelsma, Martin

doi:10.1016/s0955-3959(03)00006-9

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“…The dominant policy referential preserves state control over substances categorized as dangerous and over behaviours defined as deviant. Accordingly, the global drug policy arena is characterized by a high level of institutional, ideological and political constraint (Fazey ; Jelsma ; Trace ).…”

Section: ‘Going Global’: the Case Of The Global Commission On Drug Pomentioning

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‘Going Global’: Policy Entrepreneurship of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

Alimi

2015

Public Administration

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Changes in policy processes have impacted policy participants and stimulated the development of new patterns of action and entrepreneurship, but also the emergence of new entrants claiming authority on ‘global’ policy terrains. Privately convened ‘global initiatives’ are proliferating while triggering some conceptual puzzles, blurring the already ill‐defined limits of ‘global processes’. To seize the meanings and implications of ‘going global’, this article explores the empirical scope of such global framing of policy entrepreneurship and why such distinction matters for our understanding of global policy processes. To that end, the case of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) is examined.

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Section: ‘Going Global’: the Case Of The Global Commission On Drug Pomentioning

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‘Going Global’: Policy Entrepreneurship of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

Alimi

2015

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“…UNGASS represented a victory for a hard‐line, prohibitionist approach . Calls for re‐assessment, open‐minded and critical evaluation of current strategies and alternative approaches were silenced by the dominant rhetoric of commitment to the goal of a ‘drug‐free world’ (Jelsma ). In a similar vein McCoy has argued that in the drug war the US and the UN had become almost theologically committed to aggressive prohibition and supply reduction (: 25).…”

Section: War On Drugs In Laosmentioning

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Symbolic dimensions of the anti‐opium campaign in Laos

Cohen

2013

Australian J of Anthropology

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This article is concerned with the campaign to eradicate opium consumption and cultivation among highland minorities of northern Laos. The campaign has attracted political explanations that emphasise external pressure and enticements from the United States and the United Nations as part of the global War on Drugs. I argue that such explanations ignore the symbolic aspects of the domestic process of Laoisation in post-socialist Laos that has marginalised ethnic minorities and has transformed opium into a key symbol of primitiveness and backwardness and into a fetishised cause of poverty.

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“…This initiative culminated in the Special Session on Drugs (United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS)) held in 1998 in New York, where logically Mexico should have been the presiding country. Yet its role was usurped by the USA, who took the lead and used the occasion to confirm the prohibitionist focus that Mexico had challenged to begin with (Jelsma, 2003) iii .…”

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Drug policy in the Americas – a new set of Latin American policy proposals

Metaal¹

2012

Drugs and Alcohol Today

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This article aims to give some background information about the debate around drug policies in Latin America and to provide a view on a possible future direction of the developing debate.Design/methodology/approach -Recently increasing signs coming from the highest political level indicate that current strategies are perceived as failed, and incentives for a debate on alternatives to prohibition should be discussed. The article reflects on the origin and conditions in which this debate is taking place, and the ideas, options and projection into the political institutions that are designed for that purpose. The article describes the process using existing and new materials and insights produced by scholars and participants in the Latin American drug policy debate.Findings -The article finds that the impetus given to the drug policy reform debate has now reached a level, that it can no longer be avoided to talk openly at the highest political level, about alternatives to current drug policy strategies, based mainly on prohibition.Originality/value -The article connects recent drug policy debates into a historical perspective, and helps to underscore the need for these reforms, as a solution for the problems faced by Latin American countries, such as increased levels of violence related to the drugs market.

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Drugs in the UN system: the unwritten history of the 1998 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs

Cited by 41 publications

References 4 publications

‘Going Global’: Policy Entrepreneurship of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

‘Going Global’: Policy Entrepreneurship of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

Symbolic dimensions of the anti‐opium campaign in Laos

Drug policy in the Americas – a new set of Latin American policy proposals

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