Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
By Joanne MatternJoanne Mattern. The. People. Today. About twenty-nine million people live in Afghanistan. The largest group is the Pashtuns. They make up almost 40 percent of the country's population. Tajiks are the A Pashtun nomad herds a flock of ...
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Afghanistan: Chronotopia
By Simon NorfolkThis year's winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography, this work has already received massive critical acclaim and several simultaneous exhibitions are scheduled throughout the world from September 2002, including the Imperial ...
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Afghanistan
By Simon AdamsPresents the geography, history, economy, population, customs, and politics of Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present
By Jonathan L. LeeThe French traveller François Bernier, writing in the 1650s and '60s, describes Kandahar as 'the stronghold of a rich and fine kingdom'.27 Another European traveller of the same era noted that Kandahar was home to a large number of ...
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Afghanistan: A Cultural History
By St John SimpsonThis lively book places this rich and ancient seam of creativity in its broad historical context and offers the reader a full appreciation of this remarkable country.
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Afghanistan
By John SimpsonNo Marketing Blurb
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Afghanistan: History, Issues, Bibliography
The Christian Science Monitor Jan 8 , 1992 v84 n30 p11 24 col in Author : Timothy Weaver . Title : War or no war , traders carry on - by night . The Washington Post Jan 14 , 1989 v112 pA16 col 1 ( 24 col in ) Author : Edward Girardet .
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Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace
By Chris Johnson, Jolyon LeslieSunni Islam, 46, 70, 83, 142 Supervisory Council of the North see Shura e Nazar Supreme Court, 181, 186 Suraya, Queen, 98 SUVs, 1; armour-plated, 2 Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, 166 Syria, 104 Tajikistan, 139, 149 Tajiks, 8, 70, ...
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Afghanistan: Mountains of Our Minds
By Bob McKerrow, Abdul Samay HamedThis personal account of war-torn Afghanistan conveys the spirit of the Afghan people and the beauty of the landscape through the perspective of an international Red Cross worker.
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Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way
By Alex Marshall, Tim BirdThe deal was put into place in September and, in the main, respected until February of 2007. The implications of the accord were highly significant. It suggested an alternative 'governance' and conflict-resolution model, based on local ...
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Afghanistan: The Next Phase
By Shahid Javed Burki, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Riaz Hassan5 Vali Nasr can speak with some authority on the subject of the West's approach towards the containment of Islamic extremism. In the first administration of President Barack Obama he worked as a senior adviser to Richard Holbrooke, ...
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Afghanistan
By Amy RechnerTHE SANDS OF TIME The sun rises over the city of Herat. Ancient, sand-colored buildings fill the Old City while bright, modern canopies shade shopping stalls. Soon people fill the streets, searching the bazaar for bargains.
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Afghanistan: Politics and Economics in a Globalising State
By William Maley, Niamatullah IbrahimiJames N. Rosenau, 'Governance, order, and change in world politics', in James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel (eds.), Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) pp.
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Afghanistan: A Study of Political Developments in Central and Southern Asia
By William Kerr Fraser-TytlerAfghanistan: A Study of Political Developments in Central and Southern Asia
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
By Thomas Barfield... Mazar-i-sharif Taloqan Maimana NORTH AFGHANISTAN Baghlan Pul-i-khumri HAN B ADAKHS Murghab R. ha bR. alk B Doshi ... Gah Qandahar IRAN Zaranj PAKISTAN Tarn a k R SOUTH AFGHANISTAN Spin Boldak Quetta Helm and R. Bolan Pass Map 4.
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Afghanistan
By Chris JohnsonFor copying in any other circumstances , or for re - use in other publications , or for translation or adaptation , prior written permission must be obtained from the publisher , and a fee may be payable . Printed by Information Press ...
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Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation
By J. Bruce Amstutz263-64; Michael Richardson, "Resource Wealth and the Soviet Invasion," Far Eastern Economic Review, 23 January 1981, p. 30; and "Dossier." 95. Shroder, pp. 138-39; Assifi, pp. 262-63; and "Dossier." 96. Shroder, pp. 135-36; Richardson ...
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Afghanistan
By Thomas StreissguthTraces the history of the country, beginning with its origin as an ancient crossroads to its conquest by the Mongols, the period of British and Russian rivalry, the rise and fall of communism, the Taliban era, and the challenge of democracy ...
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
By Thomas BarfieldThomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.
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Afghanistan: Improvements Needed to Strengthen Management of U.s. Civilian Presence
By U.s. Government Accountability OfficeAs the military draws down, U.S. civilians will remain crucial to achieving the goal of transferring lead security responsibility to the Afghan government in 2014.For this report, GAO (1) examined the expansion of the U.S. civilian presence ...