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Laurent Laniel
Paris
Tel.: +
33 (0)1 55 84 53 45
Born 22 June 1966
French national
Single
Social
analyst
Illicit
drugs, International security
Translator
English, French (mother tongue),
Spanish
Ph.D.
student, École
des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS),
Paris.
Supervisor: Alain Joxe.
Thesis : Le Drug Control américain :
outil stratégique de contrôle social transnational (US drug
control as a strategic tool of transnational social control).
Profesional
Background
• Present Analyst, drug supply reduction, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA),
Lisbon.
• 2003/2008 Research
fellow, Institut National des
Hautes Études de Sécurité (INHES-Interior ministry),
Paris.
• 2003/2008 Coordinator of the international,
multidisciplinary three-year research project “Agricultural production of illicit
drugs and sustainable development”,
funded by Ministry of Research (France).
• Since 2000 Member, editorial board, journals Psychotropes and Toxibase,
Paris.
•
Since 1995 Translator (illicit drugs, organised crime, policing and military matters,
social sciences)
•
2002/2003 Coordinator of the EU research project“Evaluating police performance? The Belgian,
Dutch, French and Spanish experiences”, OISIN 2 Programme of the European Commission, CIVIPOL-IHESI, Paris.
•
1997/2002 Consultant and member, UNESCO's MOST-Drugs social-science
research network, on the impact of
the drug trade in developing countries;
co-author of the final report Globalisation,
Drugs and Criminalisation.
•
1995/2000 Researcher: Geopolitical
Drug Watch (Observatoire Géopolitique des Drogues –OGD), Paris; author
and co-author of several studies for the European Commission and
the
United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP).
Sub-editor
and writer: The Geopolitical Drug Disptach (monthly newsletter
on the geopolitics of illicit drugs).
• 1999 International Visitor
Program, United
States embassy in
Paris; one-month study trip to the United States.
Co-funded by UNESCO.
Diplomas
• 1996 Diplôme
d’études
approfondies (DEA), Sociology, EHESS, Paris (honours).
• 1994 DEA, History
of international relations, Paris I – Sorbonne University
• 1993 Master
of Arts (M.A.), International
Studies, Universidad de
Warwick,
United Kingdom.
• 1989 Maîtrise, Applied Foreign Languages, Translation English and Spanish, speciality in Terminology,
Lumière
Lyon II
University,
France (honours).
• 1984 Baccalauréat
A2 (philosophy, history, languages), Lycée Claude-Lebois, Saint-Chamond, France
(honours).
Field
work
• 2007 Mexico: Illicit production and trade of opiates in Guerrero State, “Agricultural Production of illicit drugs and sustainable development” project, Ministry of Research (France), April.
• 2006 Bolivia : Coca
production and trade in the Trópico de Cochabamba (Chapare) and
the Yungas de La Paz, “Agricultural production of illicit drugs
and sustainable development” project, Ministry of Research (France),
April/May.
• 2005 Morocco: Cannabis
sativa cultivation and hashish manufacturing in the Rif mountains,
“Agricultural production of illicit drugs
and sustainable development” project, Ministry of Research
(France), August.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/GraphicsIndex/KIF_IN_MOROCCO/Cannabis_Morocco_Intro.htm)
Peru: Coca cultivation in La
Convención
valley, Cuzco Province, “Agricultural production of illicit drugs
and sustainable development” project, Ministry of Research (France), April.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/GraphicsIndex/COCA/COCA.html)
• 1999 India: Cultural uses
of opium and cannabis, joint paper with the Mumbai Narcotics Research Center (NARC), MOST-
Drugs programme
of UNESCO, September.
United
States: Drug law-enforcement system, International
Visitor Program, United States
Information Service (USIS) United States embassy in Paris, April.
• 1998 United Nations: attendance
of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the
international drug problem, New York, 8-10 June, invited by UNDCP (funding: UNESCO).
Ivory
Coast: Social, economic and political
factors fostering the production, trafficking and use of illicit drugs. Study
for UNODCCP: The
Drug
Nexus in Africa (UNODCCP,
Vienna, March 1999), January.
Ghana: Cannabis production in cocoa-producing
regions. Cannabis Production in Central Africa, OGD study for UNDCP,
February.
Togo: Marijuana-trafficking networks. Cannabis
Production in Central Africa, OGD study for UNDCP, February.
Brazil/Colombia: Cocaine trafficking
on the Amazon River, OGD study, October.
• 1997 Lesotho,
Namibia,
South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe: Production, trafficking
and use of illicit drugs and money laundering in the countries of the
Southern African Development Community (SADC).
OGD study for the European Commission (DG8),
July/August.
United
Kingdom: Polydrug trafficking and
polydrug use. OGD study, September.
• 1996 Mexico: Political sytem
and illegal drug trafficking. OGD study, January.
• 1995 Ghana: Social-economic
study of marijuana use in cities. OGD study for the European Commission (DG8),
May.
Mexico:
Opium, coffee and armed groups in Guerrero State. OGD study, October.
Web
page
•
2004 Creation
of the web page DrugSTRAT,
drugs and strategy (http://laniel.free.fr):
online publication of papers, pictures and more
(in English, French and, Spanish) on illicit drugs and/or strategic studies.DrugSTRAT has received a total of 157,567
single daily visitors that viewed a total of 339,683
pages
(from
1st February 2004 to 12 March 2007). Statistics
available at www.weborama.fr.
Reports
for international and national organisations
• 2006 – With
P-A. Chouvy:
Policy Brief Drug Production and State Stability, SGDN/CERI,
Paris, April.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/PapersIndex/SGDN/Laniel-Chouvy-SGDN-CERI.html)
• 2003 – Coordinator:
Report Searching
for a common methodology to evaluate the impact of community policing
reforms in Europe , IHESI/OISIN
European Commission (JAI).
• 1999 – Co-author: The
Drug
Nexus in Africa, UNODCCP Studies
on Drugs and
Crime Monographs, Vienna, March.
(www.undcp.org/pdf/report_1999-03-01_1.pdf)
• 1998 – “The ‘Drug
Summit’,
New York, 8-10 June 1998”, Most-Drugs Reports
Series, n° 3, October.
(www.unesco.org/most/laniel.htm
).
• 1997 – Co-author: The
drug situation in Southern Africa,
OGD report for the European Commission (DG8).
– Co-author: Cannabis Cultivation in Central Africa, OGD report for UNDCP.
• 1996 – Co-author: West
Africa: Study of the Local Production and Trafficking of Illicit Drugs,
especially Cannabis Cultivation, OGD report for the European Commission (DG8).
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
• 2012 – With P. Griffiths and Jane Mounteney: « Understanding changes in heroin availability in Europe over time: emerging evidence for a slide, a squeeze and a shock », Addiction, publié en ligne le 17 avril 2012, DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03829.x.
• 2007 – “Agricultural Drug Economies: Cause or Alternative to Intra-State Conflict?”, Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 48, N° 3-5, pp. 133-150, December.
• 2006 – “Une carte nationale
d'identité biométrique pour les Britanniques : L'antiterrorisme
au cœur des discours de justification ”, Cultures
et Conflits, n° 64, Winter.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/BooksIndex/Cultures_&_Conflits/C&C%20Backcover.htm)
• 2001 – “Drugs in
Southern Africa: Business as Usual”, International
Social Science Journal, n° 169,
September.
(www.droit.ulg.ac.be/~ogci/issj328.pdf)
– “Communauté
des sciences sociales et politiques antidrogues aux États-Unis”, Cahiers
d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde
turco-iranien (CEMOTI),
n° 32,
July-December.
(www.ceri-sciencespo.com/cerifr/publica/cemoti/resume32.htm)
– “Cannabis
in
Lesotho”, Seminar, (New Delhi) n° 504, August.
• 1999 – “Drugs
and Globalisation: An equivocal relationship”, International Social Science
Journal, n° 160,
April.
(www.unesco.org/issj/rics160/lanielspa.html#ll)
Editions
• 2005 – With O.
González: “Drogues et antidrogues en Colombie. Production
et trafic
illicites, conflit armé, interventions étatiques”, n°
59 of Cahiers
de la Sécurité, Paris, December.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/BooksIndex/CS59COLOMBIA/CS59_COLOMBIE_Sommaire.htm)
• 2004 – With P-A.
Chouvy: “Géopolitique des drogues illicites”, n°
112 of Hérodote,
Paris, April.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/PapersIndex/HERODOTE/HERODOTE.html).
• 2001 – With Alain Labrousse and A. Block: “The
World Geopolitics of Drugs, 1998/1999”,
special issue of Crime,
Law and Social
Change, vol.
36, Nos. 1-2, September.
(www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0140-1)
Papers in
edited volumes
• 2006 – With P. Piazza: “L'encartement des nationaux comme réponse
au terrorisme : regards croisés sur les cas français
et britannique”, in X. Crettiez et P. Piazza (dir.): Du
papier à la biométrie. Identifier les individus, Presses
de Science Po, Paris, junio.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/PapersIndex/ID_CARDS/LANIEL_PIAZZA_ID_CARDS_Sc-PO.htm)
• 2002 – “Drug Trafficking
in Southern Africa: The
Legacy of War and Apartheid”, Globalisation, Drugs and Criminalisation, Final
Research Report, Programme
MOST-Drogues, UNESCO, Paris.
(www.unesco.org/most/globalisation/drugs_1.htm).
–
“The Relationship between Social Science Research and Drug Control Policy in
the United States, with a Focus on the Drugs-Crime Nexus”, ibidem.
• 2000 – “Drogenhandel im südlichen Afrika: Die
Hinterlassenschaft von Krieg und Apartheid”, Schönenberg, R. (Hrsg.): Internationaler
Drogenhandel und gesellschaftliche Transformation, Deutscher
Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden.
• 1998 – “Où va la production de cannabis ?”, OGD: Les
drogues en Afrique subsaharienne, Karthala, Paris.
(www.unesco.org/most/afrique.htm)
• 1996 – Co-author and
co-translator: OGD: The Geopolitics of Drugs, 1996 Edition, Northeastern University Press,
Boston.
(www.addall.com/Browse/Author/2662292-1)
Other papers
• 2006 – With P-A.
Chouvy: “Production agricole de drogues illicites et conflictualités
inter-étatiques : dimensions économiques et stratégiques”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité, n° 62,
third quarter.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/PapersIndex/AGRO-DROGUES/Agro_Drogues_Laniel_Chouvy.htm)
•
2005 – With O.
González:
“Introduction”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité, n°
59, December.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/BooksIndex/CS59COLOMBIA/PresentCS59COLOMBIE.htm)
– “Les Assassins. Terrorisme et politique dans l’Islam médiéval”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité, n° 56,
March.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/PapersIndex/ASSASSINS/LES_ASSASSINS.htm)
• 2004 – “Perico, Narcos, Gringos y Otros Animales del
Patio Trasero. Ensayo sobre la economía política de una legitimidad a partir
de
su impacto en la cultura popular”, L’Ordinaire
latinoaméricain (Toulouse), “Géopolitique des Amériques”, n° 195, January-March.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/PapersIndex/NARCOL'Ordinaire.htm)
–
With P-A. Chouvy: “De la géopolitique
des
drogues illicites”, Hérodote, n° 112,
– With Pascale Perez: “Croissance et... croissance
de
l’économie du cannabis en
Afrique subsaharienne (1980-2000)”, Hérodote, n° 112, April.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/PapersIndex/HERODOTE/Herodote112PAPERS/CANNAFRICAHERODOTE.htm)
– “Les cultures à usage illicite dans la région andine : implications politiques, mouvements sociaux et développement alternatif”, Cahiers de la Sécurité, n° 55, March.
•
2003 – “Drogas y
criminalidad: Breve exploración”, Sociológica (UAM-Azcapotzalco, México), año 18, n° 51,
January-April.
(http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/PapersIndex/SociologicaUSA/CienSoc-Pol%20USA2002ESP.htm)
– “États-Unis : le tout-carcéral ne paie plus”, Alternatives Internationales, n° 6,
January-February.
(www.alternatives-internationales.fr/pinfo016.htm)
– “La ‘guerre
à
la drogue’ aux États-Unis après le 11 septembre 2001”, Diplomatie, n° 1,
January-February.
(www.diplomatie-presse.com/sommaire-plus-1.htm)
• 2001 – “La menace
‘narcoterroriste’ et l'espace de sa repression”, Le Débat Stratégique,
n° 61,
March.
(www.ehess.fr/cirpes/ds/ds61/narco.html)
• 1999 – “Cannabis in
Lesotho: A Preliminary Survey”, MOST Discussion
Papers, n° 34, Paris, February.
(www.unesco.org/most.dslaniel.htm
)
– “The Relationship between
Research and Drug Policy in the United States”, MOST Discussion Papers, n° 44,
Paris, June.
(http://www.unesco.org/most/dplaniel.htm)
• 1998 – With
Carlos S.
Milani: “Drugs, Globalization and Social Transformation”, MOST Newsletter,
n° 9,
October.
(http://www.unesco.org/mostnews9e.htm)
• 1996 – With
J.F. Boyer,
Alain Labrousse and E. Léonard “Production et trafic de drogues :
Les cas du
Mexique et de la Côte d’Ivoire”, Historiens et Géographes,
n° 352,
March-April.
For the Geopolitical
Drug Watch (selection)
• 2000 –
With Alain Labrousse: Edition and co-translation into English of
the OGD annual report: The World Geopolitics
of Drugs 1998/1999, OGD, Paris.
– With
Alain Labrousse and Michel Koutouzis : “Introduction”, ibidem.
–“ The Socioeconomic Impact of the War ‘on Drugs’ in the United States”, ibidem.
–
“Mexico: Laundering the political system”, ibidem.
– “United
States:
War on Drugs or ‘Prison Keynesianism’?”, The Geopolitical Drug Dispatch, n° 94, October.
– “United
States: Cashing In on the War ‘on Drugs'”, The
Geopolitical Drug Dispatch, n° 93, September.
– “The
barons of the Prison
Connection”, The Geopolitical
Drug Dispatch, n° 93,
September.
• 1998 – With Michel Koutouzis and Alain Labrousse, “Major
trends in 1997/1998”,
OGD: The world geopolitics of drugs 1997/1998, OGD, Paris.
– With
Alain
Labrousse and Pascale Perez, “Togo”, ibidem.
– “Gulf
of
Guinea: Toward a single drug market?”, ibidem.
– “Polydrug
trafficking and polydrug use in the United Kingdom:
A model for Europe?”, ibidem.
– “NAFTA
and US-Mexico Relations”, ibidem.
– “Mexico”, ibidem.
– With
Pascale
Perez, OGD: Cannabis Cultivation in West Africa: A Response
to
the Crisis of Agriculture, OGD, Paris.
• 1997 – “Ghana”, The
world geopolitics of drugs 1995/1996,
OGD, Paris.
– “Mexico”, ibidem.
– “All
to Costa Rica!”, The
Geopolitical Drug Dispatch, n° 69,
Julio.
• 1995 –
“Royaume-Uni”, OGD : Géopolitique des drogues, 1995, La Découverte, Paris.
–
With K. Doyle “États-Unis”, ibidem.
– “Guerrero:
Poppies, violence and ‘narco-coffee’”, The Geopolitical
Drug Dispatch, n° 50, December.
Conferences,
symposia, seminars
•
2005 – Co-organisation of
the international conference: Drug
Production and State Stability, funded by SGDN (Office of the French Prime
Minister), Centre de recherche et d’études internationales
(CERI), Paris, 6
October.
–
“Cannabis in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Alternative to Development?”,
conference Drug
Production and State Stability, Centre de recherche et d’études
internationales (CERI)), Paris, 6 October.
•
2004 – “¿Cómo reducir los
daños de las
estrategias policiales antidrogas?”, Foro Andino Amazónico, organised by Mamacoca,
Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH) and Colciencias,
Popayán
(Colombia), 16/18 September.
–
“L'opposition
démocratique aux politiques antidrogue en Amérique andine”,
international symposium France-Amérique latine et Caraïbes,
organised by theInstitut des Hautes
études d’Amérique latine (IHEAL),
Centre de conference international, Paris, 4/5 October.
•
2003 – “Situación
geopolítica del problema de las drogas”, conference Políticas
de
Drogas.
Visiones y Actores del Debate, organised by Intercambios, Cámara de diputados de
la Nación, Buenos
Aires, 17/18 September.
(www.intercambios.org.ar/marco.htm)
•
2002 – “The
Post-Apartheid ‘Drug Paradox’ of Southern Africa”, Die Berliner
Drogenkonferenz, organised by R. Schönenberg and Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung,
Berlin,
14/15 October.
• 2000 – “Le
cannabis
comme culture de rente en Afrique australe”, seminar Mafie, Droghe
e
Conflitti in Africa, co-organised by OGD, ICEI y Gruppo Abele,
Milan, 8
November, Turin, 9 November.
(http://lists.peacelink.it/mafia/msg00008.html)
– “Poly-trafic
et poly-usage en Afrique”, conference A situac‹o das drogas na África
a sul
do Sara organised by OGD, CIDEC and
Projecto Vida, Lisbon, December.
– « Communauté des sciences sociales et politiques antidrogues aux États-Unis », symposium Drogue et politique, CERI, Paris, December.
•
1999 – “The
Relationship between Research and Drug Policy in the USA”, 3rd
Annual Conference of the MOST-Drugs programme of UNESCO, Universidad Jawaharlal Nehru,
New Delhi, 1-5
November.
(http://www.unesco.org/most/drugdelh.htm)
• 1998 – “Drug
Geopolitics in Southern Africa”, 2nd Annual
Conference of the MOST-Drugs programme of UNESCO, Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro,
19-22
October.
(www.unesco.org/most/drugsrio.htm)
• 1997 – “Marché local
de la consommation et développement des cultures illicites de cannabis
au
Ghana”, international conference The Drug Situation in Sub-Saharan
Africa, organised by OGD/European Commission/UNESCO,
Paris, 1-3 April.
– “Contexto Internacional de las Drogas. El Caso de Europa”, 7a
Conferencia Internacional del Grupo Latinoamericano
de
Estudios sobre Narcotráfico y Estabilidad Democrática en la Región, Secretaría de Gobernación Mexico City, May.
• 1996 – “The
Trafficking of Illicit Drugs and International Relations in the Americas. A
Case Study of Mexican-U.S. Relations 1988-1994”, International Sympiosium on
The
South in the Global Political Economy of Illicit Drugs, Centre for
Democratic Development Research and Training, Zaria, Nigeria, 22-25 July.
Selected Translations
• 2006 – French-English: Yves Breton, Gérard Klotz: “Jules Dupuit, Société d'économie
politique de Paris and the Issue of Population
in France (1850 - 1866)”, The
European
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol.
13, n° 3, September.
• 2005 – English-French: James Sheptycki: En quête de police transnationale.
Vers
une sociologie de la surveillance à l’ère de la mondialisation, De Boeck-Larcier, Bruselas,
2005, 298 pages (Original edition: In
Search of Transnational Policing. Towards a sociology of global
policing, Ashgate,
Aldershot, 2002).
(editions.larcier.com/livre/?GCOI=28044100261550)
– Spanish-French: Gustavo Duncan: “Les seigneurs de la
guerre à la conquête des villes de Colombie”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité, n°
59, December.
(www.inhes.interieur.gouv.fr/publications_articles.php?numero_article=59&id_a=DOC00016705&choix=1)
– Spanish-French: Damián Zaitch: “Cocaine, conteneurs,
contacts et contrôles. Le port de Rotterdam selon des trafiquants de drogues
colombiens”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité, n°
59, December.
(www.inhes.interieur.gouv.fr/publications_articles.php?numero_article=59&id_a=DOC00016705&choix=1)
–
English-French: Oscar Jansson: “L’impact des politiques
paramilitaires sur la production de cocaïne”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité, n°
59, December.
(www.inhes.interieur.gouv.fr/publications_articles.php?numero_article=59&id_a=DOC00016705&choix=1)
–
English-French: James Sheptycki: “Dans la machine
construite sur la criminalité transnationale”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité, n°
57, June.
•
2004 – Spanish-French: Luis Astorga: “L’hégémonie des Sinaloans sur le trafic de
drogues illicites”, Hérodote, n° 112, April.
–
French-English: Jérôme Ferret: “The State, Policing
and
‘Old Continental Europe’: Managing the Local/National Tension”, Policing
and
Society, Vol. 14,
n° 1, March.
(www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/gpas/2004/00000014/00000001/art00005)
•
2001 – English-French: Office of Justice Programs (OJP): “Plan des programes, année fiscale
1999”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité Intérieure, n° 46,
December. (www.inhes.interieur.gouv.fr/publications_articles.php?numero_article=46&id_a=ART00001157&valeur=2&order=&choix=1).
–
English-French: Robert Reiner: “La politique des policiers”, Cahiers
de la Sécurité Intérieure, n° 45,
September.
• 2000 – Spanish-French: Luis Astorga: “Mexique : Tendances récentes
du trafic
de drogues”, Mondes
en
développement, n° 110, April/June.
(www.ismea.org/ISMEA/mondesendev-110.html)
