The failure of the so-called ‘war on drugs’ has become a truism of international policy discourses. The pursuit of a symmetrical, unconstrained and ultimately highly repressive and militarised ‘war’ strategy has not produced the desired results. The recognition of this has fuelled a tidal shift in global discourses, ultimately leading the most affected countries, including Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico, to call a UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) to discuss the current strategy in April 2016.
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Collins, J. (2017). Beyond UNGASS 2016: Drug Control Multilateralism and the End to the ‘War on Drugs.’ In Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime (pp. 279–297). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57565-0_16
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