Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the TalibanUniversity 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 |
Innhold
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 |
254 | |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of ... Larry P. Goodson Begrenset visning - 2001 |
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of ... Larry P. Goodson Begrenset visning - 2011 |
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of ... Larry P. Goodson Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2015 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Abdur Rahman actors Afghan refugees Afghan society Afghanistan today Ahmed Ahmed Rashid Amstutz areas arms Asian Survey Basmachi border Bradsher British Central Asia century combat communist conflict continued destruction diplomatic Dostam Dupree Durrani early economic efforts elites especially ethnic groups factions failure fighting forces foreign Ghilzai Goodson guerrilla Hazara Hazarajat Hekmatyar Herat Ibid India Interviews Iran Islam and Resistance Islamabad Islamic Islamist istan July Kabul Kalashnikovization Kandahar Khan leaders madrasahs major Massoud Mazar-i-Sharif ment military million Modern Afghanistan Mohammad mujahideen Mullah Muslim Najibullah neighbors northern Afghanistan Northern Alliance opium Pakistan Panjshir Panjshir Valley parties percent Peshawar pipeline political population provinces Pushtun Pushtunwali qawm Rabbani Rashid regime regional religious role Rubin Russian Saudi Arabia Shah Shia social Soviet invasion Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal stage Tajik Tajikistan tion traditional tribal Turkmenistan United Nations University Press USSR Uzbek Uzbekistan weapons World
Referanser til denne boken
With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Anne E. Brodsky Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2003 |
New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State James J. Hentz,Morten Bøås Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2003 |