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A bitter harvest : US foreign policy and Afghanistan / Tom Lansford.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Aldershot, Hants, England : Ashgate, ©2003. Description: 206 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0754636151
  • 9780754636151
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E183.8. A3.
Contents:
Contents: Acknowledgments—Introduction : the renewed importance of Afghanistan in US policy—1. The ethnic actors—2. Colonialism and a history of conflict—3. The failure of the post-colonial Afghan state—4. US policy at the dawn of the cold war—5. The turn to the Soviet Union—6. 1979 : the invasion and the Jujahideen—7. The Taliban and post-cold war US policy—8. September 11 and the fall of the Taliban—Conclusion : the present and future US role—Bibliography—Index.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University E183.8.A3.L36 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000373281
Total holds: 0

“Includes bibliography”—(pages [189]-202).

Contents: Acknowledgments—Introduction : the renewed importance of Afghanistan in US policy—1. The ethnic actors—2. Colonialism and a history of conflict—3. The failure of the post-colonial Afghan state—4. US policy at the dawn of the cold war—5. The turn to the Soviet Union—6. 1979 : the invasion and the Jujahideen—7. The Taliban and post-cold war US policy—8. September 11 and the fall of the Taliban—Conclusion : the present and future US role—Bibliography—Index.

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