TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lansford,Tom
TI  - A bitter harvest : : US foreign policy and Afghanistan / 
T2  - (US foreign policy and conflict in the Islamic world)
SN  - 0754636151
AV  - E183.8. A3.
PY  - 2003///.
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, , England : 
PB  - Ashgate, 
KW  - United States
KW  -  Foreign relations
KW  -  Afghanistan
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  -  United States
N1  - “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
ER  -