Dynamics of Political Development in Afghanistan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introduction

   • Hafizullah Emadi

   Pages 1-10

3. Reform and Rebellion in Postindependence

   • Hafizullah Emadi

   Pages 11-48

4. Dawn of Political Liberalization

   • Hafizullah Emadi

   Pages 49-86

5. Military Putsch and Regime Change

   • Hafizullah Emadi

   Pages 87-125

6. State, Imperialism, and Dissident Movements

   • Hafizullah Emadi

   Pages 127-165

7. Mujahidin, Civil War, and the Taliban

   • Hafizullah Emadi

   Pages 167-203

8. Post-Taliban Politics of Reconstruction

   • Hafizullah Emadi

   Pages 205-247

9. Back Matter

   Pages 249-288

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This book examines how dependent development and struggles for power within and outside the state apparatus led to formation of alliances with imperial powers and how the latter used these alliances to manipulate political development in Afghanistan to their own advantage.

• civil war
• development
• dynamics
• imperialism
• politics
• reform
• state
• Taliban
• war

"This is a book to inform the world of the internal dynamics of a nascent nation statein a remote part of the world that is strategically important to superpowers. This is the first insider s view of Afghanistan by an indigenous journalist-scholar who looks at the top from the bottom. There is a definite need for a book of this kind." - Yasumasa Kuroda, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai i

"Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." - CHOICE: N. Entessar, University of South Alabama

HAFIZULLAH EMADI is Director of the Board of Directors for the First Micro-Finance Bank Ltd, Afghanistan.

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