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Modern Afghanistan - A History of Struggle and Survival (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Modern Afghanistan - A History of Struggle and Survival (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Afghanistan's recent history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979;
Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime;
and then the US invasion and the multi-national occupation after
the events of 11 September 2001. Why does Afghanistan remain so
vulnerable to domestic instability, foreign intervention and
ideological extremism? In reconstructing the tempestuous narrative
of modern Afghanistan, Amin Saikal provides a sweeping new
understanding of its troubled past and present. He identifies the
country's inability to develop stable political structures as
stemming from the inter-dynastic rivalry (complicated by polygamy)
that scarred successive royal families from the end of the
eighteenth century until the pro-Soviet Communist coup of April
1978, all exacerbated by foreign interventions - feeding on fragile
domestic structures - and the rise and fall of different
ideological streams. Here, for the first time, is an up-to-date
analysis of the era of the Taliban's rule, the effects of US
domination in the country and attempts to negotiate a US withdrawal
- including talks about talks with the Taliban themselves. This
book, which sets the crisis of Afghanistan in the context of the
country's modern history and social structures, makes a major and
highly original contribution towards a better and more nuanced
understanding of this ill-fated land. It is the definitive study of
Afghanistan and its troubles in national, regional and
international contexts from 1747 to the present day.
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