“…Thus, the largest part of the existing literature on drugs remains firmly within a state-centric universe of rational, powerful actors, with only a minor part focusing on the relevance of norms or epistemic communities while still locating their effects in a state-centric world (see Nadelmann, 1990; Friman, 1996, 2009; Bewley-Taylor, 1999; Bewley-Taylor and Jelsma, 2012; Levine, 2003; Andreas and Nadelmann, 2006; Friesendorf, 2007; Howell, 2010). Writings from a critical security perspective are scarce (for exceptions, see Grayson, 2008; Herschinger, 2011, 2012; Crick, 2012) and – to my knowledge – there is no study from an international relations or security studies perspective analysing the global drug prohibition regime using the concept of the dispositif and focusing on the materiality of the thing called ‘drugs’. 6 While critical security studies writings used the framework of the dispositif to address questions of security and/or materiality, Claudia Aradau (2010: 492) summarized that this literature ‘has been less interested in the role that objects played in the definition of the security dispositif ’.…”