Aims To review empirical research that seeks to relate marginal increases in enforcement
against the supply of illicit drugs to changes in drug prices at the level of the drug supply …

For two decades, militant jihadism has been one of the world's most pressing security crises.
In civil wars and insurgencies across the Muslim world, certain Islamist groups have taken …

This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized
crime in which law-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of criminal …

Colombia has aggressively pursued forced coca eradication to reduce the amount of land
that agricultural households devote to illegal crops. However, few rigorous empirical studies …

Pre-announced policies often generate unintended consequences due to individuals' acting
to take advantage of the policy conditions. Little is known about the extent to which …

We provide evidence on the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict,
focusing on illegal crops. We hypothesize that the degree of group competition over …

Illicit and illegal markets play a substantial role in the global economy, yet have received
little attention from economic geographers. This incisive, innovative book examines the …

US ing on and drugs to Assistant international in Afghanistan Secretary leaders is for
necessary have International repeatedly for winning Narcotics asserted the war and that on …

We explore the impact of the insurgency and military deployment on the livelihoods of local
communities in Afghanistan. We use monthly wages and commodity prices at the provincial …

I develop a framework for assessing economic warfare, which describes efforts to undermine
adversaries' sources of income. The ability to target adversarial market participants is a …