Poppies, Politics, and Power : Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy.

Poppies, Politics, and Power -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Colonial and Global Engagements: Afghan Opium on the Periphery of the Global Drug Market -- 2. The Politics of Prohibition: How Diplomacy with the United States Shifted the Drug Control Paradigm in Afghanistan -- 3. The Consequences of Coercion in Badakhshan: The 1958 Prohibition of Opium and the Issue of Culture in Drug Control Policy -- 4. East Meets West: Hippies, Hash, and the Globalization of the Afghan Drug Trade -- 5. The Afghan Connection: Smuggling, Heroin, and Nixon's War on Drugs in Afghanistan -- 6. All Goods Are Dangerous Goods: Development, the Global Market, and Opium in the Helmand Valley, Afghanistan -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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