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Afghanistan

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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Afghanistan

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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(R), 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.

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Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror

By: Barnett R. Rubin

One of our foremost authorities on modern Afghanistan, Barnett R. Rubin has dedicated much of his career to the study of this remote mountain country. He served as a special advisor to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke during his final mission to the region and still serves the Obama administration under Holbrooke's successor, Ambassador Marc Grossman. Now Rubin distills his unmatched knowledge of Afghanistan in this invaluable book. He shows how the Taliban arose in resistance to warlords some of whom who were raping and plundering with impunity in the vacuum of authority left by the collapse of the Afghan state after the Soviet withdrawal. The Taliban built on a centuries-old tradition of local leadership by students and teachers at independent, rural madrasas--networks that had been marginalized by the state-building royal regime that was itself destroyed by the Soviets and radicalized by the resistance to the invasion. He examines the arrival of Arab Islamists, the missed opportunities after the American-led intervention, the role of Pakistan, and the challenges of reconstruction. Rubin provides first-hand accounts of the bargaining at both the Bonn Talks of 2001 and the Afghan Constitutional Loya Jirga of 2003-2004, in both of which he participated as a UN advisor. Throughout, he discusses the significance of ethnic rivalries, the drug trade, human rights, state-building, US strategic choices, and international organizations, analyzing the missteps in these areas taken by the international community since 2001. The book covers events till the start of the Obama administration, and the final chapters provide an inside look at some of the thinking that is shaping today's policy debates inside the administration. Authoritative, nuanced, and sweeping in scope, Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War Era provides deep insight into the greatest foreign policy challenge facing America today.

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Oxford University Press

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0199970416

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9780199970414

Stabilizing Nigeria

Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society

By: Peter Lewis,Pearl T. Robinson,Barnett R. Rubin

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Stabilizing Nigeria

Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society

By: Peter Lewis,Pearl T. Robinson,Barnett R. Rubin

This book represents the developments of a working group on Nigeria established by the Council on Foreign Relations' Center for Preventive Action. It advocates a strategy of gradual pressure, including some sanctions, incentives in response to positive change, clearer communication of policy goals to the Nigerian government and public, and long-term engagment with Nigerian civil society that will provide the basic underpinning for any genuine transition.

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Council on Foreign Relations

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0870784153

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9780870784156

Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War Era

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War Era

By: Barnett R. Rubin

A collection of articles written from 1989 to 2009, updated for this volume.

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Oxford University Press

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0199791120

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Afghanistan

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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Afghanistan

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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.

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0190496665

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Cycles of Violence

Human Rights in Sri Lanka Since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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Cycles of Violence

Human Rights in Sri Lanka Since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement

By: Barnett R. Rubin

Part One - Background

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Human Rights Watch

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0938579436

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9780938579434

The Fragmentation of Afghanistan

State Formation and Collapse in the International System

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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The Fragmentation of Afghanistan

State Formation and Collapse in the International System

By: Barnett R. Rubin

This monumental book examines Afghan society in conflict, from the 1978 communist coup to the fall of Najibullah, the last Soviet-installed president, in 1992. This edition, newly revised by the author, reflects developments since then and includes material on the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. It is a book that now seems remarkably prescient. Drawing on two decades of research, Barnett R. Rubin, a leading expert on Afghanistan, provides a fascinating account of the nature of the old regime, the rise and fall of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, and the troubled Mujahidin resistance. He relates all these phenomena to international actors, showing how the interaction of U.S. policy and Pakistani and Saudi Arabian interests has helped to create the challenges of today. Rubin puts into context the continuing turmoil in Afghanistan and offers readers a coherent historical explanation for the country’s social and political fragmentation. Praise for the earlier edition: "This study is theoretically informed, empirically grounded, and gracefully written. Anyone who wants to understand Afghanistan’s troubled history and the reasons for its present distress should read this book.” —Foreign Affairs "This is the book on Afghanistan for the educated public.” —Political Science Quarterly

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Yale University Press

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0300095198

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Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror

By: Barnett R. Rubin

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Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror

By: Barnett R. Rubin

A collection of articles written from 1989 to 2009, updated for this volume.

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The Fragmentation of Afghanistan

State Formation and Collapse in the International System

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State Formation and Collapse in the International System

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Book's by Barnett R. Rubin

Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror

Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror

Stabilizing Nigeria

Stabilizing Nigeria

Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War Era

Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War Era

Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Cycles of Violence

Cycles of Violence

The Fragmentation of Afghanistan

The Fragmentation of Afghanistan

Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror

Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror

Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror

Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror

The Fragmentation of Afghanistan

The Fragmentation of Afghanistan

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