TY - BOOK AU - Saikal, Amin 1950-. AU - Maley, William1957-. TI - The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / edited by Amin Saikal and William Maley SN - 9780521375771 U1 - DK 68.7 .A6 .S25 1989 CY - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. KW - Soviet Union – Foreign relations – Afghanistan. KW - Afghanistan – Foreign relations – Soviet Union. KW - Soviet Union – Foreign relations – 1985-1991. KW - Afghanistan – History – Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 N1 - Includes bibliographical references.; Contents: Preface—1. Introduction; Amin Saikal and William Maley—2. The Geneva accords of April 1988; William Maley—3. Post-withdrawal Afghanistan : light at the end of the tunnel; Louis Dupree—4. The regional politics of the Afghan crisis; Amin Saikal—5. The Afghan conflict and Soviet domestic politics; T. H. Rigby—6. The Soviet armed forces and the Afghan war; Geoffrey Jukes—7. Afghanistan and Soviet alliances; Robert F. Miller—8. Afghanistan and Sino-Soviet relations; Leslie Holmes—9. The Afghanistan ‘settlement’ and the future of world politics; Richard A. Falk—10. Conclusions : management of the Afghan crisis; J. L. Richardson—List of contributors—Index ER -