Rubin Barnett R. (Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Center On International Cooperation New York University)
Rubin Barnett R. (Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Center On International Cooperation New York University) - Afghanistan From The Cold War Through The War On Terror - Paperback
Rubin Barnett R. (Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Center On International Cooperation New York University) - Afghanistan From The Cold War Through The War On Terror - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Afghanistan From The Cold War Through The War On Terror
Author(s): Rubin Barnett R. (Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Center On International Cooperation New York University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190229276
Pages: 544 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2015
Category: Terrorism, Armed Struggle
Description: 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.
Title: Afghanistan From The Cold War Through The War On Terror
Author(s): Rubin Barnett R. (Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Director Of Studies And Senior Fellow Center On International Cooperation New York University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190229276
Pages: 544 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2015
Category: Terrorism, Armed Struggle
