Bitter Harvest

Bitter Harvest

US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan

Lansford, Tom

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2003

216

Dura

Inglês

9780754636151

15 a 20 dias

560

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Contents: Introduction: the renewed importance of Afghanistan in US policy; The ethnic actors; Colonialism and the history of conflict; The failure of the post-colonial Afghan state; US policy at the dawn of the Cold War; The turn to the Soviet Union; 1979: the invasion and the Mujahideen; The Taliban and post-Cold War US policy; September 11 and the fall of the Taliban; Conclusion: the present and future US role; Bibliography; Index.
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Central Government;successive;Afghan Government;afghan;Pashtunian Issue;regimes;United States;pashtunian;Secretary Of State;issue;Loya Jirga;history;Zahir Shah;state;Interim Government;northern;Bin Laden;alliance;Northern Alliance;loya;Operation Enduring Freedom;PDPA;Nadir Shah;Successive Afghan Governments;UN;Shah Shuja;Afghan State;AI Qaeda;Afghan History;Transportation Network;Afghan Elites;Mujahideen Commanders;JDAM;Joint Direct Attack Munitions;Hindu Kush Mountains