Az Arany Háromszög felemelkedése és hanyatlása

The paper examines the rise and fall of the Golden Triangle opium-producing region, by focusing on local economic and social conditions, as well as international factors that have affected opium production in Myanmar (formerly Burma), Laos, and Thailand. By 1970, the Golden Triangle countries produced 70 percent of the world’s opium, but even in the late 1990s, the figure remained 66 percent, and only today has the region become less significant, as a result of the combination of parallel but non-interacting processes. Along with the reasons for the region’s rise, its decline and prospective trends are examined.