Humanitarian invasion : global development in Cold War Afghanistan / Timothy Nunan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nunan, Timothy, author.

Series:

Global and international history.

Global and international history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian assistance--Afghanistan--History--20th century.

Humanitarian assistance.

Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--Economic conditions--20th century.

Afghanistan--Foreign economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Global development in Cold War Afghanistan

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, Timothy Nunan forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the front lines of the Cold War. Nunan argues that Afghanistan functioned as a laboratory for the future of the Third World nation-state. If, in the 1960s, Soviets, Americans, and Germans sought to make a territorial national economy for Afghanistan, later, under military occupation, Soviet nation-builders, French and Swedish humanitarians, and Pakistani-supported guerrillas fought a transnational civil war over Afghan statehood. Covering the entire period from the Cold War to Taliban rule, Humanitarian Invasion signals the beginning of a new stage in the writing of international history.

Contents:

Introduction

How to write the history of Afghanistan

Afghanistan's developmental moment?

States of exception, states of humanity

From Pashtunwali to communism?

Under a red veil

Borderscapes of denial

The little platoons of humanity

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jan 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-48204-9

1-316-48462-9

1-316-48505-6

1-316-48763-6

1-316-48548-X

1-316-28245-7

1-316-48591-9