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Professor David Bewley-Taylor

Personal Chair

Politics, Philosophy and International Relations

+44 (0) 1792 604291

d.r.taylor@swansea.ac.uk

Office - 017
Ground Floor
James Callaghan
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1724-4223

About

David is Professor of International Relations and Public Policy and founding Director of the Global Drug Policy Observatory (2013). Since appointment as a lecturer at Swansea University in 2000 he has been visiting faculty at universities in the USA, Australia, Hungary, India, Hong Kong, and mainland China.

While engaging with a wide-range of drug policy issues, his interdisciplinary research focuses predominantly on the United Nations and international drug control policy. In addition to numerous book chapters and journal articles, he has written two major research monographs, The United States and International Drug Control, 1909-1997 (Continuum, 2001) and International Drug Control: Consensus Fractured (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and is co-editor of the Research Handbook on International Drug Control Policy (Edward Elgar 2020).

David was the founding Secretary of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (2006-7) and is currently on the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Drug Policy. He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, (University of Essex), a member of the International Advisory Board of the David F. Musto Center for Drug Policy Studies (Shanghai University), and a technical advisor to the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation.

David has played an advisory role to governments and international organisations and collaborated with and produced policy reports for a range of international non-governmental organisations. At present he is a Senior Associate of the International Drug Policy Consortium and a Research Fellow of the Transnational Institute’s Drugs and Democracy Programme.

Publications

Research Highlights

Bewley-Taylor, D. & Hallam, C. (2021). The International Drug Control Regime: Crisis and Fragmentation. In Annette Idler and Juan Carlos Garzon Vergara (Ed.), Transforming the War on Drugs: Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions (pp. 83-112). Hurst & Company
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63127
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2022). The Creation and Impact of Global Drug Prohibition. The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (pp. 304-322). Oxford University Press
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190842642.001.0001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63126
Kay, S., Jelsma, M., & Bewley-Taylor, D. (2020). Fair Trade cannabis: a road map for meeting the socio-economic needs and interests of small and traditional growers. Journal of Fair Trade, 2(1), 27-34.
https://doi.org/10.13169/jfairtrade.2.1.0027, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55853
Bewley-Taylor, D., Jelsma, M., & Kay, S. (2020). Cannabis Regulation and Development: Fair(er) Trade Options for Emerging Legal Markets. Drug Policies and Development (pp. 106-124). Brill | Nijhoff
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440494_007, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55852
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2020). Politics and Finite Flexibilities: The UN Drug Control Conventions and their Future Development. AJIL Unbound, 114, 285-290.
https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2020.56, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55851
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2020). International divisions sharpen over cannabis regulation
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55029
Bewley-Taylor, D. & , K. (Eds.). (2020). Research Handbook on International Drug Policy. Edward Elgar.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55028
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Lines, R. (2018). The UN Drug Control Treaties: Contemporary Challenges and Reform. International Community Law Review, 20(5), 399-401.
https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341382, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa44919
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2019). Drug Diplomacy: Russia promotes hard-line global drugs regime
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51984
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Jelsma, M. (2019). Drugs and Crime. Oxford Handbook on UN Treaties Oxford University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50592
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-united-nations-treaties-9780190947842?cc=gb&lang=en&#

All Research

Journal Articles

Bewley-Taylor, D. (2020). Politics and Finite Flexibilities: The UN Drug Control Conventions and their Future Development. AJIL Unbound, 114, 285-290.
https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2020.56, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55851
Kay, S., Jelsma, M., & Bewley-Taylor, D. (2020). Fair Trade cannabis: a road map for meeting the socio-economic needs and interests of small and traditional growers. Journal of Fair Trade, 2(1), 27-34.
https://doi.org/10.13169/jfairtrade.2.1.0027, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55853
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Lines, R. (2018). The UN Drug Control Treaties: Contemporary Challenges and Reform. International Community Law Review, 20(5), 399-401.
https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341382, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa44919
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Fitzmaurice, M. (2018). The Evolution and Modernisation of Treaty Regimes. International Community Law Review, 20(5), 403-435.
https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341383, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45228
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2018). Canada, cannabis legalization and uncertainty around the United Nations drug control conventions. Addiction, 113(7), 1226-1228.
https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14141, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40689
Nickerson, J., Pettus, K., Wheeler, K., Hallam, C., Bewley-Taylor, D., Attaran, A., & Gelb, A. (2017). Access to controlled medicines for anesthesia and surgical care in low-income countries: a narrative review of international drug control systems and policies. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie, 64(3), 296-307.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-016-0805-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33723
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Bewley-Taylor, D. (2017). Refocusing metrics: can the sustainable development goals help break the ‘metrics trap’ and modernise international drug control policy?. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 17(2)
https://doi.org/10.1108/DAT-12-2016-0033, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32962
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2014). Legitimacy and modernity via policy transfer: The utility of the 2003 Afghan National Drug Control Strategy. International Journal of Drug Policy, 25(5), 1009-1018.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.04.002, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21941
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2013). Drug Trafficking and Organised Crime in Afghanistan. The RUSI Journal, 158(6), 6-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2013.869719, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21943
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2013). Towards revision of the UN drug control conventions: Harnessing like-mindedness. International Journal of Drug Policy, 24(1), 60-68.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.09.001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13510
http://www.ijdp.org/article/PIIS0955395912001247/abstract
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Jelsma, M. (2012). Regime change: Re-visiting the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 23(1), 72-81.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.08.003, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11109
Hallam, C. & Bewley-Taylor, D. (2010). Mapping the world drug problem: Science and politics in the United Nations drug control system. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21(1), 1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2009.10.007, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa380
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2009). The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its High Level Segment: more cracks in the Vienna consensus. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 9(2), 7
https://doi.org/10.1108/17459265200900013, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa381
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2008). Crack in the Lens: Hollywood, the CIA and the African-American response to the 'Dark Alliance' series. Intelligence and National Security, 23(1), 81-103.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11322
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2006). Watch This Space: Civil Liberties, Concept Wars and the Future of the Urban Fortress. Journal of American Studies, 40(02), 233
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875806001368, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2479
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2003). Challenging the UN drug control conventions: problems and possibilities. International Journal of Drug Policy, 14(2), 171
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0955-3959(03)00005-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2480
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2003). The American Crusade: The Internationalization of Drug Prohibition. Addiction Research & Theory, 11(2), 71
https://doi.org/10.1080/1606635021000021377, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2481

Authored Books

Bewley-Taylor, D. (2012). International Drug Control: Consensus Fractured Cambridge University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11110
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/international-drug-control-consensus-fractured
Bewley-Taylor, D. (1999). The United States and International Drug Control, 1909-1997 Pinter.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33724

Book Chapters

Bewley-Taylor, D. (2022). The Creation and Impact of Global Drug Prohibition. The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (pp. 304-322). Oxford University Press
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190842642.001.0001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63126
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Hallam, C. (2021). The International Drug Control Regime: Crisis and Fragmentation. In Annette Idler and Juan Carlos Garzon Vergara (Ed.), Transforming the War on Drugs: Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions (pp. 83-112). Hurst & Company
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63127
Bewley-Taylor, D., Jelsma, M., & Kay, S. (2020). Cannabis Regulation and Development: Fair(er) Trade Options for Emerging Legal Markets. Drug Policies and Development (pp. 106-124). Brill | Nijhoff
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440494_007, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55852
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Jelsma, M. (2019). Drugs and Crime. Oxford Handbook on UN Treaties Oxford University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50592
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-united-nations-treaties-9780190947842?cc=gb&lang=en&#
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Nougier, M. (2018). Chapter 3 Measuring the ‘World Drug Problem’: 2019 and Beyond. Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs: From UNGASS 2016 to Review 2019 (pp. 65-83). Emerald Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-487-920181003, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa44805
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2015). Narcotráfico en Afganistán: la intersección entre crimen organizado, corrupción e inseguridad. Mercados ilegales y violencia armada. Los vínculos entre la criminalidad transnacional organizada y los conflictos armados (pp. 51-71). Tecnos
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21944
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2007). `The War on Drugs: Illicit Drugs as a Moral Evil and Useful Enemy’ in Selling US Wars. (pp. 1Olive Branch Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa386
Bewley-Taylor, D. (n.d.) “At a Crossroads: Drug Trafficking and Violence and the Mexican State” in Combating Drug Trafficking: Legal Strategies. (pp. 1The Icfai University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa384
Bewley-Taylor, D. (n.d.) “Drug Policy in India: Compounding Harm?” in Combating Drug Trafficking: Legal Strategies. (pp. 1The Icfai University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa385

Conference Contributions

Bewley-Taylor, D. (2008). ‘Rethinking Drug Markets and Societal Reactions to Them: Contributions in Drug Policy’. (pp. 205Contemporary Drug Problems; An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa383

Edited Books

Bewley-Taylor, D. & , K. (Eds.). (2020). Research Handbook on International Drug Policy. Edward Elgar.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55028

Other Research Outputs

Bewley-Taylor, D. (2020). International divisions sharpen over cannabis regulation
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55029
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2019). Drug Diplomacy: Russia promotes hard-line global drugs regime
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51984
Bewley-Taylor, D. (2017). Narcotics Anonymous: Crypto-drug markets adapt to law enforcement intervention
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36802
Eventon, R. & Bewley-Taylor, D. (2016). An overview of recent changes in cocaine trafficking routes into Europe. Background paper commissioned by EMCDDA for 2016 EU Drugs Markets Report
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33928
Bewley-Taylor, D. & Jelsma, M. (2012). The Limits of Latitude - The UN Drug Control Conventions
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16024
http://www.tni.org/briefing/limits-latitude

Supervision

Ethical and Governance Challenges in Population Biobanking: the case of the global Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (awarded 2022)

PhD

Other supervisor: Prof Michael Mcnamee
International Drug Control and Access to Controlled Medicines in Brazil: Changes and Tensions in International Regimes (2009-2019) (awarded 2022)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Luca Trenta

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Ethical and Governance Challenges in Population Biobanking: the case of the global Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (awarded 2022)

International Drug Control and Access to Controlled Medicines in Brazil: Changes and Tensions in International Regimes (2009-2019) (awarded 2022)