Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival - Brossura

Saikal, Amin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1780761228 ISBN 13: 9781780761220

Casa editrice: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Afghanistan's history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime and then the US invasion after the catastrophe of September 11th. Why does Afghanistan remain so vulnerable to domestic instability, foreign intervention and ideological extremism? Amin Saikal provides us with a sweeping new understanding of this troubled country that grounds Afghanistan's problems in rivalries stemming from a series of dynastic alliances within the successive royal families from the end of the eighteenth century to the pro-Communist coup of 1978. This is the definitive study of Afghanistan.

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Recensione

An original contribution to the field. --Robert D. McChesney, New York University

Successfully sustains a new approach to Afghan history... excellent and lucid: a much-needed account. --Peter Avery, King s College, University of Cambridge

Saikal s contribution to our understanding and analysis of modern Afghanistan post 9/11 is a very important one. --International Affairs

L'autore

Amin Saikal is Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies and Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. He has been a visiting fellow at the Universities of Princeton and Cambridge, as well as at Sussex University's Institute of Development Studies. He is the author of numerous works on the Middle East,Central Asia, and Russia, including The Rise and Fall of the Shah and Islam and theWest: Conflict or Cooperation?.

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• Editore: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780761228
• ISBN 13: 9781780761220
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 389