Traffickers, terrorists, and a 'new security challenge': Russian counternarcotics strategy and the Federal service for the Control of the Drugs Trade

Small Wars and Insurgencies

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-77

  Renz, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Collective security treaty organisation; Corruption; Counternarcotics; Drugs; Fskn; Heroin; Narcotics; Nato; Opium; Russia; Soviet union; Terrorism; War on drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952474733     PISSN: 09592318     EISSN: 17439558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2011.546579     Document Type: Article

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