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A bitter harvest : US foreign policy and Afghanistan / Tom Lansford.
Van Pelt Library E183.8.A3 L36 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lansford, Tom.
- Series:
- US foreign policy and conflict in the Islamic world series
- US foreign policy and conflict in the Islamic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--Afghanistan.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan--Foreign relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 206 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Renewed Importance of Afghanistan in US Policy 1
- 1 The Ethnic Actors 10
- 2 Colonialism and a History of Conflict 31
- 3 The Failure of the Post-Colonial Afghan State 51
- 4 US Policy at the Dawn of the Cold War 71
- 5 The Turn to the Soviet Union 94
- 6 1979: The Invasion and the Mujahideen 113
- 7 The Taliban and Post-Cold War US Policy 136
- 8 September 11 and the Fall of the Taliban 157
- Conclusion: The Present and Future US Role 178.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754636151
- OCLC:
- 52541931
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