TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mansfield,David
ED  - Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU).
TI  - Understanding control and influence : : what opium poppy and tax reveal about the writ of the Afghan state / 
T2  - (Issues paper)
SN  - 9789936628762
AV  - Pamphlet HV5840. A23.
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Kabul, Afghanistan : 
PB  - Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), 
KW  - Drug traffic – Afghanistan
KW  - Opium trade – Afghanistan
KW  - Drug control – Afghanistan
KW  - Poppy cultivation – Afghanistan
KW  - Narcotics, Control of – Afghanistan.
KW  - Drug abuse – Afghanistan – Prevention
N1  - “August 2017”.
“Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit”—at head of title.
“AREU research for a better Afghanistan ; 15 years of high-quality research”—cover page.
“European Union”—cover page
; Contents: About the authors—About the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit—Foreword—Acknowledgements—Executive summary—1. Control and influence : what does it mean and how is it measured?—2. Opium poppy cultivation : what does it tell us about state influence?—3. Tax : what does it tell us about insurgent influence?—4. A better way of measuring the influence of the state’s in Afghanistan?—5. Conclusion—Bibliography—Request for feedback—Tables—Boxes—Figures
N2  - Summary: “There are a number of organisations that have sought to map government control in Afghanistan. however, given the frequency it is cited in the media and official reports, this paper offers a critique of the current way that North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) and US forces in Afghanistan (USFOR-A) measure government influence and control in Afghanistan. It describes the limits of the current approach within the confines of what is currently known about the methodology. It shows that the concept of state or insurgent “control” over a population or area jars not only with historical…”—(page 1)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_pamphlet_hv5840_a23_m355_2017
ER  -