The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System Book

The tortured history of Afghanistan is illuminatingly outlined by Barnett S. Rubin, an American academic and human rights monitor in the region. In the 19th century, the country successfully resisted colonial rule, becoming a buffer between the imperial superpowers, Britain and Russia. That dangerous position resulted in an isolation that held back modernization and the emergence of a modern central government. In this century, the Soviet Union and the United States maintained the status quo up until the early seventies, when a communist coup heralded massive outside intervention. The country was ripe for a disastrous fragmentation. This scholarly study is complemented by a sequel: The Search for Peace in Afghanistan.Read More

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  • Product Description

    A unique, definitive study of the entire Afghan conflict from the 1978 communist coup to the fall of Najibullah, the last ex-communist president, in 1992. This book provides a thoroughly documented analysis of how one of the late Cold War`s major conflicts turned into one of the post-Cold War period`s first cases of state disintegration.

  • 0300059639
  • 9780300059632
  • Barnett R. Rubin
  • 1 June 1995
  • Yale University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
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