Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban

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University of Washington Press, 2001 - 264 sider
Goodson (international studies, Bentley College) analyzes the civil wars that wracked Afghanistan throughout the 1990s, with a focus on the reasons for state failure in the Central Asian country. After looking at some of the factors that affected Afghanistan as the playing board of the imperial "great game" of Britain and Russia, he turns his attention to the Islamist rebellion against the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime. Here, he ignores the role of the United States in fomenting the destabilization of Afghanistan with imported Islamist rebels, repeatedly implying that the mujahedeen were a purely local institution. He then recognizes that the civil wars that broke out among the former U.S.-backed warlords sounded the death knell for hopes of a stable government until the Taliban swept into the vacuum of power. The chapter on the future of Afghanistan is necessarily dated because of its inability to foresee the U.S. attack on the country and the subsequent installation of the government of Hamid Karzai. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
 

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Afghanistan in the PostCold War World
3
Historical Factors Shaping Modern Afghanistan
23
Modern War in Afghanistan Destruction of a State
54
Impact of the War on Afghan State and Society
91
Afghanistan and the Changing Regional Environment
133
The Future of Afghanistan
167
Major Actors in Modern Afghan History
189
Notes
194
Glossary
228
References Cited
237
Index
254
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Larry P. Goodson is associate professor of international studies at Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts.

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