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Author: Marlene Laruelle Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498546552 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 283
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Central Asia is a relatively understudied neighbor of Afghanistan. The region is often placed into a number of historical and political contexts—a section of the Silk Road, a pawn in the “Great Game,” the “spillover” state that exemplifies the failure of US foreign policy—that limit scholarly understanding. This edited volume contributes by providing a broad, long-term analysis of the Central Asia–Afghanistan relationship over the last several decades. It addresses the legacy of Soviet intervention with a unique first-hand selection of interviews of former Soviet Central Asian soldiers that fought in the Soviet–Afghan War. It examines Afghanistan’s norther neighbors, discussing Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—their strategy for Afghanistan, their perception of challenges and opportunities of the country, and patterns of cooperation and conflict. The collection also looks at recent US strategic initiatives in the region, in particular the New Silk Road Initiative that envisions a growing Central Asia–South Asia connection.
Author: Marlene Laruelle Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498546552 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 283
Book Description
Central Asia is a relatively understudied neighbor of Afghanistan. The region is often placed into a number of historical and political contexts—a section of the Silk Road, a pawn in the “Great Game,” the “spillover” state that exemplifies the failure of US foreign policy—that limit scholarly understanding. This edited volume contributes by providing a broad, long-term analysis of the Central Asia–Afghanistan relationship over the last several decades. It addresses the legacy of Soviet intervention with a unique first-hand selection of interviews of former Soviet Central Asian soldiers that fought in the Soviet–Afghan War. It examines Afghanistan’s norther neighbors, discussing Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—their strategy for Afghanistan, their perception of challenges and opportunities of the country, and patterns of cooperation and conflict. The collection also looks at recent US strategic initiatives in the region, in particular the New Silk Road Initiative that envisions a growing Central Asia–South Asia connection.
Author: Helena Rytövuori-Apunen Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich ISBN: 3847409123 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states’ ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down.
Author: Antonio Giustozzi Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 1787380955 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages :
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So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan at least. This book, by one of the leading experts on Islamist insurgency in the region, explores the nature of IS in Khorasan, its aim and strategies, and its evolution in an environment already populated by many jihadist organisations. Based on first-hand research and numerous interviews with members of IS in Khorasan, as well as with other participants and observers, the book addresses highly contentious issues such as funding, IS's relationship with the region's authorities, and its interactions with other insurgent groups. Giustozzi argues that the central leadership of IS invested significant financial resources in establishing its own branch in Khorasan, and as such it is more than a local movement which adopted the IS brand for its own aims. Though the central leadership has been struggling in implementing its project, it is now turning towards a more realistic approach. This is the first book on a new frontier in Islamic State's international jihad.
Author: Ahmad Shayeq Qassem Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317184602 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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Political stability has been a central theme of policy for all governments and political systems in the history of modern Afghanistan. Since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, the country experimented with a diverse succession of political systems and state ideologies matched by few other countries' political histories. In the span of less than nine decades since independence in 1919, the Afghan state was substantially restructured at least a dozen times. This volume looks at Afghanistan's historic relations with Central and South Asia, ethno-nationalism and development, Soviet occupation and transformation of relations with Pakistan, stability of the Islamic State and regional cooperation. It examines how Afghanistan's different political systems reformed and readjusted policies to make them more conducive to political stability. Yet political stability, at best, has remained a dream unrealized in Afghanistan.
Author: Richard J. Krickus Publisher: ISBN: Category : Afghan War, 2001- Languages : en Pages : 176
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The ability of the United States and Russia to cooperate in Afghanistan represents a solid test of their reset in relations. The author provides the historical background to the Afghanistan Question and assesses current events in the Afghan war with three objectives in mind: 1) to determine whether Russian-American cooperation in Afghanistan has been successful; 2) to identify and evaluate the successes and failures of the counterinsurgency strategy as the transition from U.S. to Afghanistan authority gains traction in the 2011-14 time frame; and 3) to provide conclusions and recommendations bearing on developments in Afghanistan.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Publisher: ISBN: 9780160565397 Category : Asia, Central Languages : en Pages : 66
Author: Rollie Lal Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 9780833041074 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 62
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China, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan are critical players in the security and economic issues that will determine the future of Central Asia and affect U.S. interests in the region. By assessing the developing relations between Central Asia and its neighbors, it is evident that each country stands to benefit from stability and economic growth in Central Asia, but opinion toward U.S. presence and policy in the region could be a point of conflict.
Author: Angus Hamilton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Afghanistan Languages : en Pages : 598
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Angus Hamilton (1874-1913) was a British journalist who reported for a number of newspapers and journals between 1894 and 1912. Among the events he covered were the Boer War in South Africa, the Boxer uprising in China, and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. Like most books of this period, Afghanistan approaches its subject through the prism of the rivalry between Great Britain and Russia for influence in Central Asia, the so-called "Great Game." The book, more than 600 pages, is intended to be a "single comprehensive study of contemporary conditions" in Afghanistan and Central Asia. The first chapter is devoted to the Orenburg-Tashkent Railway (in present-day Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan) recently completed by the Russians. It is followed by chapters devoted to the khanates, provinces, and districts to the north of Afghanistan, notably Bukhara, Tashkent, Samarkand, and Merv, territories located in present-day Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Subsequent chapters cover Herat, Kandahar, Seistan (Sistan), and Kabul. Hamilton also devotes separate chapters to the provinces and ethnic groups in the country; administration, law, and revenue; trade and industry; and the army. The author devotes the last two chapters to the tenuous Anglo-Afghan relations, especially the border zone with India, as well as Russian influence on Kabul. He has high praise for Abd al-Rahman Khan, ruler of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901, for his work to modernize his country, but concludes that he "failed to bequeath to his son any portion of his own singular abilities." His son and successor was Habibullah Khan (reigned 1901-19). Presented here is the first edition of the book, published in London in 1906. It is illustrated with 145 photographs depicting British and Afghan officials, ordinary Afghans, monuments, land features, and palaces. A long list of appendices provides explanatory and supporting materials. A second, shorter edition of the book, also presented in World Digital Library, was published in Boston and Tokyo in 1910.
Author: Marlene Laruelle
Author: Marlene Laruelle
Author: Helena Rytövuori-Apunen
Author: Antonio Giustozzi
Author: Munawwar Khan
Author: Ahmad Shayeq Qassem
Author: Richard J. Krickus
Author: Alan Cranston
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Author: Rollie Lal
Author: Angus Hamilton