Special issue: Drug policy history, design and practice in Asia - Call for papers

Call for Papers: Special Issue: Drug policy history, design and practice in Asia / Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

The history, policies and practice of drug control in Asia, from opium wars to the first multilateral agreements on drug control, to the illegal production of scheduled substances (plant-based and synthetic), from the trafficking routes throughout the continent to the drug-free societies policies have been widely analyzed, but in isolation according to geographic sub regions or disciplines. This special issue welcomes articles covering the complete geographical spectrum in Asia, from Northeast Asia to the Middle East, and at providing a space for interdisciplinary research that connects Asian drug trafficking and inter-Asian legal responses’ cooperation. The special issue aims mainly to collect, in one collection, a general overview of the history, the current practice and the policies to address drug production, trafficking and use on the continent which is home to 60% of the world population. The special issue will focus on three key dimensions of drug control that affect Asian countries:

• Historical landmarks: including milestones of drug control policy developments at the national level, which shaped the international regime over the last two centuries;
• Public health and history of local responses: i) analysis of the burden of infectious diseases, and ii) the state of access to controlled essential medicines; and
• Criminal justice and historical landmarks of its development: i) legal responses and punishments, and ii) prison overcrowding and over incarceration.

Calling for papers from different disciplines, and privileging interdisciplinary research, the special issue also encourages and welcomes papers addressing the analysis of contemporary drug-related issues in Asia, including and not limited to: public safety and drug-related crime, policy priorities including the historical, social, cultural and economic mechanisms behind the objective of drug free societies, and data collection challenges.

The guest editors are especially interested in receiving papers based on empirical research and/or analysis with balanced geospatial coverage of countries and sub regions, and will ensure articles invited equally cover Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and Western Asia (Middle East).

For more information see the full Call for Papers here: English and Chinese.

Planned date of publication: June 2023.

Deadline for submission of abstracts (250 words maximum) and letters of intent (LOIs): 4 November 2022.

Please submit your abstract and bio to the editors:

• Khalid Tinasti, Centre for Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Khalid.tinasti@graduateinstitute.ch
• Yong-an Zhang, International Centre for Drug Policy Studies, Shanghai University, zhangyongan@shu.edu.cn

特刊征稿｜亚洲毒品政策的历史、制定和实践

在亚洲毒品管制的历史、政策和实践研究中，从鸦片战争到第一个多边毒品管制协议以及列管物质（包括植物性和合成性）的非法生产、从全球毒品贩运路线到无毒品社会政策等内容都受到了广泛关注及分析，但都是按照地理上的次区域或通过单一学科进行研究。因此，本期特刊欢迎涵盖从东北亚到中东整个亚洲地理范围内的文章，并为把亚洲毒品贩运和亚际政策应对合作相联系的跨学科研究提供空间。希望能在本期特刊中收集到占世界人口60%的亚洲大陆的毒品生产、贩运、使用的历史、政策及实践的总体概况。本期将重点关注影响亚洲国家毒品管制的三个关键方面：

• 历史中的里程碑：包括在过去两个世纪中塑造了国际制度的国家一级毒品管制政策的发展里程碑；
• 公共卫生和地方应对的历史：（1）传染病负担分析；（2）获得基本管制药物的情况；
• 刑事司法及其发展的历史里程碑：（1）法律对策和惩罚；（2）监狱过度拥挤和过度监禁。

本刊征集不同学科的文章，并优先考虑跨学科研究，同时鼓励和欢迎分析当代亚洲毒品相关问题的文章，包括但不限于：公共安全和毒品相关犯罪问题、政策优先事项（包括无毒品社会目标背后的历史、社会、文化和经济机制等）、数据收集挑战。

请于2022年11月4日之前提交摘要（不超过250字）和投稿意向书，本刊将在11月24日之前通知入选文章作者，入选者请于2023年1月27日之前提交文章全文。入选文章将接受本刊的同行评审程序（双盲同行评审），计划出版日期为2023年6月。

特邀编辑重点关注基于实证研究和/或分析的论文，并尽可能平衡各国家、次区域等的地理分布，确保入选文章的研究范围涵盖东北亚、东南亚、南亚、中亚和西亚（中东）。

欲了解更多信息，请参阅此处的论文征集全文：英文和中文。

并将其提交给特刊的特邀主编：

• 哈立德·蒂纳斯蒂，冲突、发展与建设和平中心，日内瓦国际关系和发展高级研究院，Khalid.tinasti@graduateinstitute.ch
• 张勇安，上海大学国际禁毒政策研究中心，zhangyongan@shu.edu.cn