Politics

Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal…

Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality…

Foreign aid plays a crucial role in the process of building fragile states, so it is vital to understand its…

Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book…

In 2006, Texas historian and photographer Bill Wright traveled to Afghanistan to teach a course—sponsored by the Afghan NGO ASCHIANA,…

Fighting For Afghanistan is the third book in the Rogue Historian trilogy, taking Maloney's story into the conflict in 2006, when…

Endgame in Afghanistan: For Whom the Dice Rolls covers a wide territory related to the war in Afghanistan, the stakes…

An extended new preface and a new epilogue, written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place the Kirghiz…

Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the…

This book offers an overview of the formation of the Afghan state and of the politics, economic challenges and international…

his book, first published in 1990, studies the oral fiction entertainments of Afghanistan by focusing on aspects of the oral…

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 stunned the world and ushered in a new period of superpower confrontation. Research…

Be the First to Review this book Author:Paul Bernard, Raymond Desparmet, Jean Claude Gardin, Philippe Gouin, Marc Le Berre, Georges…

What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a…

Warlords have come to represent enemies of peace, security, and “good governance” in the collective intellectual imagination. In this book…

This easy-to-use reference explores the people and events that shaped Russian military history―and impacted Europe, Asia, and the world―over the…