TY - BOOK AU - Nojumi,Neamatollah TI - The rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan : : mass mobilization, civil war, and the future of the region / SN - 9780312295844 AV - DS371.2. N65 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - New York : PB - Palgrave, KW - Taliban KW - Afghanistan KW - Politics and government KW - 1973-1989 KW - 1989-2001 N1 - “Transferred to digital printing 2009”—reverse of title page; “Includes bibliography”—(p. [248]-251); Contents: Chronology of events—List of definitions and abbreviations—Introduction—1. Historical background (p. 1)—2. The theory of mass mobilization (p. 11)—3. Traditional political system (p. 28)—4. The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (p. 41)—5. The phenomena of civil war in Afghanistan (p. 60)—6. Zonal division of Afghanistan (p. 78)—7. The Afghan Mujahideen and mass mobilization (p. 83)—8. The first phase of civil war (p. 95)—9. The formation of a third movement (p. 105)—10. Missing the only chance (p. 110)—11. The rise of the Taliban (p. 117)—12. The source of Taliban forces in Afghanistan (p. 125)—13. Taliban tactics and strategies (p. 134)—14. The political ideology of the Taliban (p. 152)—15. The Taliban advance toward Mazar-e-Sharif (p. 158)—16. The road into the future (p. 171)—17. Afghanistan in the international system (p. 182)—Conclusion (p. 206)—Epilogue : the Afghan connection to September 11 (p. 220)—Notes (p. 232)—Bibliography (p. 248)—Index (p. 252) ER -