The Drug War in a Land Without Drugs: East Germany and the Socialist Embrace of International Narcotics Law

Richardson-Little, Ned

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“…Many international scientists at different times have considered various areas of security in their states countries and the secure development of society in terms of the spread of illegal drug trafficking and its impact on the sustainable development of states, in particular small countries (Bright et al, 2018;Manrique López & Pastor Armas, 2018;Richardson-Little, 2019;Rodriguez, 2020;Chomczyński & Guy, 2021;Van Uhm et al, 2021;Raistenskis, Krivins & Aleksejeva;Jukna & Grasis, 2023;Abuseridze et al, 2022).…”

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Ensuring the secure and sustainable development of the society: countering drug trafficking at the global level

Tumalavičius¹

2023

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The recent illegal drugs market trends are connected with the flow of new psychoactive substances also through internet resources. Consequently, the states intensified its legislative initiative in this field. In addition there is a current trend related to the use of smuggled controlled substances and new psychoactive substances, illegal cultivation of marijuana as well as the involvement our countries citizens in the trafficking of narcotic substances. The problem of drug addiction has become very topical as an ever increasing number of youth who are involved in narcotics could become a threat to each and every one of us and security of society as a whole. This case study is devoted to the study of the transformation of approaches to ensuring the safety of society and combating drug trafficking at the international level. The aim of this study is to consider the general problem of drug trafficking as a challenge to modern international security and international economics development. The object of the study is the mechanism of combating drug trafficking at the stage of sustainable development. The analytical method, the method of situational analysis, the comparative method, theoretical studies and specific legal research methods were used as methods in the study as methods used in the social sciences to study objective reality. The methodological approach of the study is constructivism and social constructivism. On the one hand, the analysis of the formation of a global regime of non-coercive solution to the problem of drug trafficking requires a constructive analysis. On the other hand, the problems of global governance are best developed today mainly by constructivism. Finally, this case study testifies to the global dominance of shadow entrepreneurs in narco-states and their participation in illegal drug trafficking bypassing the participation of state institutions and confirms the assumption put forward about the lack of implementation of measures to counter this phenomenon on the part at the state level.

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Ensuring the secure and sustainable development of the society: countering drug trafficking at the global level

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2023

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Cold War Narcotics Trafficking, the Global War on Drugs, and East Germany's Illicit Transnational Entanglements

Richardson-Little

2023

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Although it lacked a significant domestic market for internationally trafficked drugs, East Germany emerged as an important corridor for narcotics smugglers in the 1970s due to its position between supply countries in Asia and consumer countries in the West. The unique geography of West Berlin created a large market of consumers surrounded by East German territory, forcing traffickers to pass through the GDR border. Efforts by officials in both Germanys and the United States to cooperate on the problem of narcotics trafficking revealed conflicts between the geography of the Cold War—where the GDR border was the front line in the ideological conflict between East and West—and the international drug prohibition system, which sought global interstate collaboration in the name of a “universal international society,” against the common threat of crime. As Cold War tensions declined in the 1980s, border enforcement cooperation between East and West became increasingly viable as both sides reoriented toward the view that Europe had to defend itself from the threats posed by mobilities of those in the global south.

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The Drug War in a Land Without Drugs: East Germany and the Socialist Embrace of International Narcotics Law

Cited by 2 publications

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Ensuring the secure and sustainable development of the society: countering drug trafficking at the global level

Ensuring the secure and sustainable development of the society: countering drug trafficking at the global level

Cold War Narcotics Trafficking, the Global War on Drugs, and East Germany's Illicit Transnational Entanglements

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