Afghanistan: Identity, Society and Politics Since 1980 (Library of Modern Middle East Studies Book 165)

"Over the last three decades Afghanistan has been plagued by crisis - from Soviet invasion in 1979 and Taliban rule to US invasion following the events of 9/11. Here the top specialists on Afghanistan, including Olivier Roy, Ahmad Rashid and Jonathan Goodhand, provide a unique overview of the evolution, causes and future of the Afghan crisis. Covering political and military events and examining the role of ethnic groups, religious and ideological factors and the role of the leaders and war chiefs of the period - from the anti-Soviet resistance to the presidency of Hamid Karzai - this book will prove essential reading to all interested in Afghanistan and the wider Middle East region. Examining recent events in the light of the country's economy, Afghan civil society, cultural heritage and state reconstruction attempts, this is a comprehensive and diverse look at a country whose recent history has been marked by internal conflicts and foreign intervention--Bloomsbury Publishing." Pt.i. The Pdpa Regime, 1978-89. The Bridge On The Amu Darya / Micheline Centilvres-demont ; All Roads Lead To Rome / Aziz Zekrya ; The Geopolitical Stakes From The Soviet Point Of View / Michel Foucher ; Pakistan On The Frontline / Jean-christopher Victor ; The Land Reform Of 1979 And Its Aftermath / Erwin Grötzbach ; The Kabul Government Institutions / Chantal Lobato ; What Is Becoming Of The Kyrgyz In Turkey? / Rémy Dor ; The Afghan Situation In Summer 1987 / Olivier Roy ; Towards A Soviet Withdrawal? / Olivier Roy ; Afghan Women Today / Pierre Centlivres And Micheline Centilvres-demont ; Pakistan And The Afghan Issue / Mushahid Hussain ; Afghanistan: An American View / Selig S. Harrison ; The Political Reconstruction Of Afghanistan: The Hazaras A Hundred Years After Abdur Rahman / Rolf Bindemann ; The Russians Ready To Intervene In Afghanistan At France's Request: A Century Ago / Pierre Centlivres -- Pt.ii. The Mujahedeen Moment, 1990-95. Finding A Political Solution: Rejection Or Participation / Jean-josé Puig ; Pakistan's Afghan Policy: No Light At The End Of The Tunnel / Mushahid Hussain ; Afghanistan And The Arab World / Arnold Hottinger ; Consociationalism And The Afghan Political Order / William Maley ; The Reconstitution Of The Afghan State / William Maley ; Afghan Women View The Future / Nancy Hatch Dupree ; Herat: A Model And An Opportunity For Afghanistan / Bernard Dupaigne ; Reflections On The Political Development Since The Fall Of The Pdpa Regime / Asta Olesen ; From Pashtunistan To Central Asia: Pakistan's Afghan Policy / Frédéric Grare ; The Instability Of Power / Barnett R. Rubin ; Ethnicity Cannot Be The Basis For A Common Policy: The Hazara Failure In The Struggle For Afghanistan / Rolf Bindemann ; Some Reflections On The Pashtunistan Problem / Sayyid Qasim Reshtya -- Pt.iii. Afghanistan Under The Taliban, 1996-2001. Regional Impact Of The Taliban Breakthrough / Olivier Roy ; The Taliban: Fundamentalist, Traditionalist Or Totalitarian? / William Maley ; The Kabul Museum Under The Taliban / Nancy Hatch Dupree ; Greater Afghanistan: A Missed Chance? / Ludwig Adamec ; The End Of Us Policy Towards Afghanistan? / Barnett R. Rubin ; The Taliban: The New Forces Of Law And Order In Afghanistan /citha D. Maass ; The Taliban: Revolutionary Dynamic And Regional Environment / Gilles Dorronsoro ; The Impact Of The Taliban On The Afghan Economy / Peter Marsden ; The Culture Of Music In The Afghan Transnational Community / John Baily ; Afghanistan's War Economy And Global Reach / Ahmed Rashid ; Farewell To The Buddhas Of Bamiyan / Pierre Centlivres -- Pt.iv. Afghanistan After The Taliban / Olivier Roy ; Ethnicity And Politics In Afghanistan: The Role Played By Setam-e Melli / Antonio Giustozzi ; Ahmad Shah Massoud: The Man Behind The Legend / Christophe De Ponfilly ; Reconstituting State Power In Afghanistan / William Maley ; A Bad Start To Reconstruction / Gilbert Étienne ; Letter To A Father: Bashfulness And Emotion In The Midst Of Migration / Alessandro Monsutti ; Agriculture In Afghanistan: A Contribution To A Better Understanding / Raphy Favre ; Afghanistan And Pakistan / Ahmed Rashid ; The New Afghan Constitution / Micheline Centilvres-demont ; What Went Wrong? Humanitarianism In Crisis In Afghanistan / Antonio Donini ; Five Theses On The Structural Instability Of Afghanistan / Conrad Schetter ; Founding A New Islamic State In Afghanistan / J.p. Singh Uberoi ; Making A Presidential System Work / William Maley ; The Uzbeks Of Afghanistan Since The End Of The Taliban Rule / Ingeborg Baldauf ; How Many Nomads Are There In Afghanistan? / Bernt Glatzer ; Campaign Harvests: Media Coverage Of The Presidential Elections Of October 2004 / Hamida Aman ; Buzkashi Then And Now / G. Whitney Azoy ; Processes Of Political Ethnicization In Today's Afghanistan / Antonio Giustozzi ; Order And Justice In Afghanistan: Some Reflections On The Problem Of Amnesty / William Maley -- Pt.v. An Evolving Future. The Afghan Roots Of The Neo-taliban Movement / Antonio Giustozzi ; Soviets And Westerners In Afghanistan: What Elements Of Continuity? / Gilles Dorronsoro ; Ngos And Afghanistan: New Challenges, Old Dilemmas / Jonathan Goodhand ; State Administration And Local Power Brokers In Afghanistan's Provinces / Antonio Giustozzi ; Afghanistan And The Global Failure Of Counter-narcotics / Pierre-arnaud Chouvy ; President Obama And The Future Of Us Policy In Afghanistan / M. Nazif Shahrani ; A Muted Voice? Religious Actors And Civil Society In Post-2001 Afghanistan / Kristian Berg Harpviken And Kaja Borchgrevink ; Defending Urban Heritage / Jolyon Leslie ; The Hazaras In Afghanistan: Origins And Linguistic Evidence / Abdul Ghafur Rawan Farhadi ; The Future Of The Afghan National Army: Problems And Reforms / Antonio Giustozzi ; Afghan Cultural Heritage As Seen By The Afghans / Nancy Hatch Dupree ; Will The Us Achieve A Permanent Military Presence In Afghanistan? / Peter Marsden ; Afghanistan 2011: An Archipelago Of Sovereignties / Alessandro Monsutti ; Negotiating With The Taliban / William Maley ; Towards A New Civil War? Western Withdrawal And The Dynamics Of Regionalization / Gilles Dorronsoro ; Young Afghanistani Refugees In Iran: Professional Training, Work And Perspectives / Khadija Abbasi ; China And Afghanistan: A New Phase? / William Maley ; Afghanistan 2014: Another Excuse For Yet More Disaster? / Edward Girardet. Edited By Micheline Centilvres-demont ; Introduction By Olivier Roy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Micheline Centlivres-Demont ForewordOlivier Roy IntroductionPART I:The PDPA Regime, 1978 - 1989 1. Micheline Centlivres-Demont The Bridge on the Amu-Daria 2. Aziz Zekrya All Roads lead to Rome 3. Michel Foucher The Geopolitical Stakes from the Soviet Point of View 4. Jean-Christophe Victor Pakistan on the Front Line 5. Erwin Groetzbach The Afghanistan Land Reform of 1979 Aftermath 6. Chantal Lobato The Kabul Government 7. Remy Dor What is Becoming of the Kyrgyz in Turkey? 8. Olivier Roy The Afghan Situation in Summer 1987 9. Olivier Roy Towards a Soviet Withdrawal? 10. Pierre Centlivres and Micheline Centlivres-Demont Afghan Women Today 11. Mushahid Hussain Pakistan and the Afghan Issue 12. Selig S. Harrison Afghanistan: an American View 13. Rolf Bindemann The Political Reconstruction of Afghanistan 14. Pierre Centlivres The Russians Ready to intervene in Afghanistan PART IIThe Mujahedeen Moment, 1990-199615. Jean-Jose Puig Finding a Political Solution 16. Mushahid Hussain Pakistan's Afghan Policy: No Light at the End of the Tunnel 17. Arnold Hottinger Afghanistan and the Arab World 18. William Maley Consociationalism and Afghan Political Order 19.William Maley The Reconstruction of the Afghan State 20. Nancy Hatch Dupree Afghan Women view the Future 21. Bernard Dupaigne Herat, a Model and an Opportunity for Afghanistan 22. Asta Olesen Reflections on the political Development since the Fall of the PDPA Regime 23. Frederic Grare From Pashtunistan to Central Asia" 24. Barnett R. Rubin The Instability of Power 25. Rolf Bindemann Ethnicity Cannot be the Basis for a Common Policy 26. Sayyid Qasim Reshtia Some Reflection on the Pashtunistan Problem PART IIIAfghanistan under the Taliban, 1996-200127. Olivier Roy Regional Impact of the Taliban Breakthrough 28. William Maley The Taliban : Fundamentalist, Traditionalist or Totalitarian? 29. Nancy Hatch Dupree The Kabul Museum under the Taliban 30. Ludwig Adamec Greater Afghanistan - A missed Chance? 31. Barnett R. Rubin The End of US Policy toward Afghanistan? 32. Citha Maass Taliban : The New Forces of Law and Order 33. Gilles Dorronsoro The Taliban : new revolutionary Dynamics and regional Context 34. Peter Marsden The Impact of the Taliban on the Afghan Economy 35. John Baily The Culture of Music in the Afghan transnational Community 36. Ahmed Rashid Afghanistan's War Economy and Global Reach 37. Pierre Centlivres Farewell to the Buddhas of Bamiyan PART IVAfter the Taliban38. Olivier Roy Afghanistan after the Taliban 39. Antonio Giustozzi Ethnicity and Politics in Afghanistan. The Role played by Setam-e melli 40. Christophe de Ponfilly Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Man behind the Legend 41. William Maley Reconstituting State Power in Afghanistan 42. Gilbert Etienne A Bad Start to Reconstruction 43. Alessandro Monsutti Letter to a Father 44. Raphy Favre Agriculture in Afghanistan. A Contribution for a better Understanding 45. Ahmed Rashid Afghanistan and Pakistan 46. Micheline Centlivres-Demont The New Afghan Constitution 47. Antonio Donini What went wrong? Humanitarianism in Crisis in Afghanistan 48. Conrad Schetter Five Theses on Structural Instability of Afghanistan 2e de couv.: Over the last three decades Afghanistan has been plagued by crisis - from Soviet invasion in 1979 and Taliban rule to US invasion following the events of 9/11. Here the top specialists on Afghanistan, including Olivier Roy, Ahmad Rashid and Jonathan Goodhand, provide a unique overview of the evolution, causes and future of the Afghan crisis. Covering political and military events and examining the role of ethnic groups, religious and ideological factors and the role of the leaders and war chiefs of the period - from the anti-Soviet resistance to the presidency of Hamid Karzai - this book will prove essential reading to all interested in Afghanistan and the wider Middle East region. Examining recent events in the light of the country's economy, Afghan civil society, cultural heritage and state reconstruction attempts, this is a comprehensive and diverse look at a country whose recent history has been marked by internal conflicts and foreign intervention