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Flower of War: An Environmental History of Opium Poppy in Afghanistan
- SAIS Review of International Affairs
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 35, Number 1, Winter-Spring 2015
- pp. 183-200
- 10.1353/sais.2015.0000
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Afghanistan’s opium production has soared despite eradication efforts. This is partly due to a prolonged drought linked to climate change. But it is also due to the collapses of traditional irrigation systems and the social cohesion upon which the maintenance of those systems depend. This crisis, in turn, raises deeper questions about prevailing notions of the “natural” and the “social” as dichotomous and distinct.