List Books » The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System, Second Edition
Authors: Barnett R. Rubin
ISBN-13: 9780300095203, ISBN-10: 0300095201
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: Second Edition
"This book examines Afghan society in conflict, from the 1978 communist coup to the tall 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 Usama 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.
This is the book on Afghanistan for the educated public.
Acknowledgments | ||
List of Abbreviations | ||
Political Map of Afghanistan | ||
1 | Afghanistan, Mirror of the World | 1 |
Pt. I | The Old Regime: State, Society, and Politics | 17 |
2 | Social Structure under the Old Regime | 22 |
3 | State, Tribe, and the International System: From Gunpowder Empires to the Cold War | 45 |
4 | Rentier State and Rentier Revolutionaries | 81 |
Pt. II | The PDPA in Power: From the Second Cold War to the Collapse of the USSR | 107 |
5 | Failure of Revolution from Above | 111 |
6 | Under Soviet Occupation: Party, State, and Society, 1980-1985 | 122 |
7 | Soviet Withdrawal, Political Retreat: State and Society, 1986-1991 | 146 |
Pt. III | The Islamic Resistance: Mujahidin, Society, and the International System | 177 |
8 | Origins of the Movement of Jihad | 184 |
9 | International Aid, War, and National Organization | 196 |
10 | International Aid, War, and Local and Regional Organization | 226 |
11 | Mujahidin after Soviet Withdrawal | 247 |
12 | State Collapse after the Cold War: Afghanistan without Foreign Aid | 265 |
Appendix A: Note on Sources | 281 | |
Appendix B: Political Actors in Afghanistan, 1973-1994 | 285 | |
Appendix C: Financing of Government Expenditure, 1952-1988 | 295 | |
Notes | 299 | |
Glossary | 343 | |
Bibliography | 349 | |
Index | 367 |