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Opium

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

Opium: bitter, brownish, sticky - and highly addictive. But its impact goes beyond tales of personal pleasure or misery. It is a story played out on an international stage: major powers, local war lords, national governments - all have a stake in the continuing story that is illicit opium production. Pierre Chouvy exposes the politics behind illicit opium production. In particular he explores the remote mountainous regions of Asia that produce 90% of the world's illicit opium - the Golden Triangle of Thailand, Laos and Burma and the Golden Crescent of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. He reveal

GenresOpium tradeHistoryPolitical aspectsOpium

248 pages

English edition · First published 2009 by I. B. Tauris · ISBN 9781282931961

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