This compendium was published by LSE IDEAS in October 2012. The compendium is comprised of a series of research papers that offer in-depth analysis, which in this edition focus on the international drug control system, the war on drugs and different approaches to drug policy.
In this edition the research papers cover topics such as Re-examining the Drug Problem Through a Fresh Lens; the International Drug Control System; Reflection on a Century of International Drug Control; Why We Make War on Some Drugs but not Others; Science, Diplomacy and Cannabis; Apprising the Consequences of policy, Cocaine’s ‘Blowback’ North: A Commodity Chain Pre-History of the Mexican Drug Crisis; Swiss Drug Policy in International Context – Fought, Ignored, Admired; The Contemporary International Drug Control System: A History of the UNGASS Decade; Reflections on Human Rights and International Drug Control; and Overhauling Oversight: Human Rights at the INCB.
Citation: LSE Ideas, 'IDEAS Special Reports: Governing the Global Drug Wars' (2012), SR014