Poppies, politics, and power: Afghanistan and the global history of drugs and diplomacy

Colonial and global engagements : Afghan opium on the periphery of the global drug market

The politics of prohibition : how diplomacy with the United States shifted the drug control paradigm in Afghanistan

The consequences of coercion in Badakhshan : the 1958 prohibition of opium and the issue of culture in drug control policy

East meets west : hippies, hash, and the globalization of the Afghan drug trade

The Afghan connection : smuggling, heroin, and Nixon's war on drugs in Afghanistan

All goods are dangerous goods : development, the global market, and opium in the Helmand Valley, Afghanistan

Epilogue.