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Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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  • Barnett R. Rubin is widely recognized as America's leading scholar on Afghanistan
  • Synthesizes decades of research on Afghanistan into an accessible account of the country in the modern era
  • Makes key information accessible in a question-and-answer format

   
Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the world's major powers. In the mid-1990s, the country entered a new phase, when the Taliban took power and imposed order based on a harsh, repressive version of Islamic law. Infamously, the sheltered Osama bin Laden, whose attack on 9/11 Towers ushered in the Global War on Terror, drew tens of thousands of American troops to the country, where they remain today.
   
In Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®, leading scholar Barnett R. Rubin provides an overview of this complicated nation. After providing a concise history of Afghanistan, he explores the various peoples and cultures of the country and its relations with neighbors like Pakistan and Iran. He also provides an authoritative overview of the conflicts that have plagued the country since the Soviet invasion. Both wide-ranging and pithy, this book explains why Afghanistan matters and what its possible future might look like.

Index: 

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Reading List

About the author: 

Barnett R. Rubin is Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Center for International Cooperation, New York University. He also served in the Obama Administration as Senior Advisor to Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rubin is the author of The Fragmentation of Afghanistan (Yale) and Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror (Oxford).

Product details

ISBN : 9780190496647

Author: 
Barnett R. Rubin
Pages
352 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
140 x 210 mm
Pub date
Aug 2020
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
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Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®