Political Economy of Narcotics in Ethnic Conflict
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Narcotics, Political Economy, Ethnic ConflictAbstract
This article addresses two critical questions. Firstly, how do economic factors involve and relate to the dynamic of ethnic conflict. Secondly, how the existence of narcotics used as the founding and affect the civil way structure. The theoretical review and documentary research are used as the main approaches to answer these questions. It argues that economic factors impact civil war, including control over natural resources, duration, and intensity. In the case of narcotics, it is an incentive factor that makes ethnic armed groups distract from the fighting for ideology to fighting for economic interest, particularly the establishment of the connection with transnational organized crime. It leads the effect of the structure of civil war directly. According to the case studies from Afghanistan, Colombia, and Myanmar, the situation in Myanmar could be used as a thorough case study of the relation between narcotics and ethnic conflict. Most importantly, the mechanism to end civil war is ineffective because the dynamic of the interest exchange remains exist.
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