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Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force
their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending
excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the extent that
war is no longer sustainable. Written by a former BBC Afghanistan
correspondent who set up the corporation's bureau in Kabul in the
early 1990s, this book draws both from scholarly knowledge as well
as first-hand insights on how the Americans met that fate in
Vietnam, and the Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan. America's
1975 retreat from Vietnam was a consequential event, prompting US
commentators to explain it as reluctance to get involved in foreign
wars, a mindset described as the Vietnam Syndrome. As Deepak
Tripathi points out, the Vietnam experience made the Americans
determined to give the Soviets their own Vietnam. The 1979 Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan, and retreat after a decade of occupation,
represented the revenge America sought. However, President George
W. Bush's decision to invade Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks was
the beginning of a long military venture that ended in retreat in
2021. Addressing an academic as well as a general audience,
Tripathi explores parallels between wars in Afghanistan and
Vietnam, and shows how the United States and the Soviet Union met
the same fate.
This book sheds light on modern populism and discusses the link
between populism and identity politics against the backdrop of
populist leaders asserting the identity of their own group, while
maintaining the separation from others. Written by former BBC
correspondent and commentator Deepak Tripathi, the book explains
how populism has a long history with early discernable origins in
the Tsarist Russian Empire and North America in the nineteenth
century, spreading to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere in the
following century. The book analyzes various forms of populism, its
causes and consequences. It further looks at how industrialization,
economic growth, and movement of people led to conditions which
contributed to inequalities, fueling populist sentiments and social
conflict around the globe. Tripathi concludes that populism has
moved from the fringes to the mainstream of politics, and is here
to stay, given factors such as growing competition for resources,
population increase, climate change, and migration. The book will
appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of political science
and neighboring disciplines, as well as policy-makers interested in
a better understanding of modern populism and its roots. Written in
a graceful, informative style, this book explores the rise of
populism on the global scene and exposes its dangers. Mark
Juergensmeyer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and
Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author
of Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State
Deepak Tripathi provides the first lucid and comprehensive analysis
of a political phenomenon that engulfs many states and societies
today. Ilan Pappe, Professor of History, and Director of the
European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter This
wide-ranging and clear-sighted book gives a historically-informed
account of how populism went mainstream. It is a fascinating
read. Richard Toye, Professor of Modern History, University
of Exeter
The military adventure that George W. Bush embarked on within
months of his inauguration in 2001 was to eclipse everything else
in his presidency. His name will forever be synonymous with the
"war on terror." What started as a military response to al Qaeda's
attacks in New York and Washington on 9/11, with the goal of
neutralizing al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts in Afghanistan, quickly
fused with the neo-conservative agenda to dominate and reshape the
Middle East. Al Qaeda's terrorism was answered by the terror of
American military power, which has destroyed or blighted the lives
of millions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. Deepak Tripathi, a
former BBC correspondent who has kept a keen eye on the region for
more than three decades, identifies systematically the naive
calculations, strategic and operational blunders, disregard for
history and for other cultures, and even downright prejudice that
have brought so much harm to so many. The legacy of Bush's foreign
policy will take years to overcome, Tripathi argues. His war on
terror provoked resentment and violent opposition, opened up
sectarian divisions, and created Hobbesian conditions of war of all
against all. The long-term price tag for America has been estimated
at a colossal $3 trillion, but as Tripathi seeks to demonstrate,
the overall cost, in human and economic terms, will be
incalculable.
A Journey Through Turbulence is a collection of Deepak Tripathi's
writings in the last decade, covering a vast landscape and many
subjects, from the United States, Britain and the European Union to
conflicts in South Asia and the Middle East, the Arab Awakening,
the power shift from west to east, and the new great game in the
east. Displaying a keen knowledge of the landscape, these essays
have an insightful analysis of the present in the context of the
past. Dr. Deepak Tripathi, fellow of the Royal Historical Society,
is a British historian of the Middle East and South Asia with a
particular emphasis on the Cold War and the United States in the
post-Soviet world. He is an honorary research fellow in social
sciences at the University of Roehampton in London. Among his books
is a trilogy including Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins
of Islamist Terrorism (2011), Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq
and Afghanistan (2010), and Imperial Designs: War, Humiliation and
the Making of History (2013), published by Potomac Books, Inc.,
Washington, D.C. In his long career as a journalist before the
September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Deepak Tripathi
lived and worked in the United States and Britain, and reported
from Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India. Turning to
his current research interest in great power rivalries and
conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia, he has since published
several books, and more than a hundred and fifty articles. His
columns have appeared in numerous journals and periodicals,
including CounterPunch, History News Network of George Mason
University, Al-Ahram Weekly, Al Jazeera English, Palestine
Chronicle, Mondoweiss, and the Nation of Pakistan. "Tripathi writes
with a degree of bite on the important issues of our times,
covering the end of the Bush era to the start of Barack Obama's
second term. These essays provide a searing commentary of U.S.
foreign policy, and its failings from Iraq to Libya." - Dr. Binoy
Kampmark, RMIT University, Melbourne, and formerly Commonwealth
Scholar, Selwyn College, Cambridge University
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