Regime Change In Afghanistan: Foreign Intervention And The Politics Of Legitimacy (Irv Ser in Rehabilitation Research;2)

Noting that, like many nonindustrial countries, Afghanistan has a weak government and a strong traditional social structure, describes the events since the 1987 communist coup in terms of native ideas of regime maintenance and political legitimacy. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. A study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. The authors seek to explain the experience of the post-coup period by relating Afghanistan's political and social systems to broader theoretical propositions. State, societies and political legitimacy the new regime the opposition Soviet options the Geneva debacle the aftermath of the withdrawal the destructuring of Afghanistan.