Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Colonial and Global Engagements: Afghan Opium on the Periphery of the Global Drug Market 16
6. 2. The Politics of Prohibition: How Diplomacy with the United States Shifted the Drug Control Paradigm in Afghanistan 44
7. 3. The Consequences of Coercion in Badakhshan: The 1958 Prohibition of Opium and the Issue of Culture in Drug Control Policy 85
8. 4. East Meets West: Hippies, Hash, and the Globalization of the Afghan Drug Trade 116
9. 5. The Afghan Connection: Smuggling, Heroin, and Nixon’s War on Drugs in Afghanistan 145
10. 6. All Goods Are Dangerous Goods: Development, the Global Market, and Opium in the Helmand Valley, Afghanistan 180
11. Epilogue 214
12. Notes 223
13. Bibliography 261
14. Index 273