Publications

Coca Yes, Cocaine No?

Mario Argandoña, Anthony Henman, Ximena Echeverría
May 2006

This issue of Drugs and Conflict explains the motives, context and range of the demand to remove the coca leaf from strict international drugs controls, as well as the procedures that need to be followed to reach this objective.

HIV/AIDS and Drug Use in Burma/Myanmar

Briefing
Burma Centrum Nederland
May 2006

The increasing number of injecting drug users (IDUs) and the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Burma presents one of the most serious health threats to the population in the country, and also to the region at large. Infection rates among IDUs in Burma are among the highest in the world. The international community needs to make a firm commitment to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Burma and should ensure sufficient and long-term financial support for HIV/AIDS and harm reduction programmes.


Political Challenges Posed by the Failure of Prohibition

Briefing
May 2006

After a slight dip in coca production during 2003 and 2004, the Andean region has returned to the historical average of 200,000 hectares of coca crops.

Arming Big Brother

April 2006

This Statewatch-TNI report examines the development of the EU Security Research Programme (ESRP) and the growing security-industrial complex in Europe it is being set up to support.

Crônicas depois do furacão

Sue Branford
January 2006

Hilary Wainwright, coordenadora de vãrias redes internacionais de
pesquisa e ativismo, procurou colocar-se no centro dos acontecimentos,
dando voz a todos os lados da crise que se abateu sobre o PT e o
governo Lula em 2005.

In the Eye of the Storm:

Sue Branford (eds)
January 2006

In August 2005, Hilary Wainwright went to Brazil to find out 'what went
wrong', and what positive lessons the Brazilian experience might hold
for the future of the left. But on her arrival in Brazil, she found
herself observing at first hand the unfolding of a political crisis.

Challenging Empire

January 2006

Bennis tracks the rise of US unilateralism and the doctrine of preemptive war, looking particularly at Iraq and Israel/Palestine, and examines both the potential and the challenges ahead in reclaiming the UN as part of the global peace movement.

Annual Report 2005

Annual report
December 2005

In 2005, TNI had much to celebrate. Europe was a major theme for TNI in 2005, given the constitutional debates and referendums. TNI took this as its theme for the annual fellows meeting, hosted an international seminar on the construction of Europe, and published research on the distorting influence of Europe’s multinational corporations on security policy and sustainable development.

Dilemmas of Domination

October 2005

The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak—and precisely because of its imperial ambitions. So argues Walden Bello in his provocative new book, which systematically dissects the strategic, economic, and political dilemmas confronting America as a consequence of its quest for global domination.

The Global Fix

Michael Woodiwiss and Dave Bewley-Taylor
October 2005

This issue of Crime & Globalisation, tracks the history of the concept of organised crime and its metamorphosis into a "transnational" phenomenon allegedly posing a serious threat to global world order.

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