Afghanistan beyond the fog of war persistent failure of a rentier state
This is the first book to scrutinize the root causes of problems today with Afghan reconstruction. It begins in 1880 with the coming to power of Emir Abdur Rahman and departure of an occupying British army. On the northern border, Russian forces were also poised. Determined to preserve Afghan indepe...
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| Language: | English |
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Copenhagen, Denmark
NIAS Press
2018
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| Series: | Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series
no. 143 |
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Table of Contents:
- The Abdur Rahman model
- Rentier state, modernization, and Pashtunisation
- Kabul University, Islamic extremism, and Marxism
- Civil wars and Soviet intervention
- Mujahidin infighting, Taliban takeover, and regional and ethnic fragmentation
- War on terror and reconstruction of national identity
- Nation-building in post-Taliban Afghanistan
- Afghanistan in transition
- Obama's drawdown strategy and the Afghan national defence and security forces
- The rentier state in the twenty-first century