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The Need for Strategic Cooperation in the Black Sea Region to Counter the Afghan-Based Drug and Crime Threat
Vladimir Fenopetov
53 - 62
10.3233/978-1-60750-637-9-53
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics
Volume 74: Black Sea Security
Abstract

Afghanistan is the source of approximately 90% of the world's opium. This paper explains how the opium is smuggled through the Caucasus and the Black Sea en route to Europe and America, and how this drug trafficking nourishes separatist ambitions and armed conflicts in several Black Sea countries. The traffickers compromise and challenge international assistance programs in the region, and exert a corrupting influence on the local economies, politics and societies along the trafficking routes.

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