Afghanistan And The Coloniality Of Diplomacy

Author : Maximilian Drephal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030239602

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Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy by Maximilian Drephal Pdf

This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919. It contextualises this diplomatic mission in the wider remit of Anglo-Afghan relations and diplomacy from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the networks of family and profession that established the institution’s colonial foundations and its connections across South Asia and the Indian Ocean. The study presents the British Legation as a late imperial institution, which materialised colonialism's governmental practices in the age of independence. Ultimately, it demonstrates the continuation of asymmetries forged in the Anglo-Afghan encounter and shows how these were transformed into instances of diplomatic inequality in the realm of international relations. Approaching diplomacy through the themes of performance, the body and architecture, and in the context of knowledge transfers, this work offers new perspectives on international relations through a cultural history of diplomacy.

Author : Martin J. Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107118058

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Taming the Imperial Imagination by Martin J. Bayly Pdf

A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.

Author : Nivi Manchanda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491235

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Imagining Afghanistan by Nivi Manchanda Pdf

An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.

Author : Magnus Marsden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108976503

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Beyond the Silk Roads by Magnus Marsden Pdf

Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus Marsden introduces readers to a dynamic yet historically durable universe of commercial and cultural connections. Through an exploration of the traders' networks, cultural and religious identities, as well as the nodes in which they operate, Marsden emphasises their ability to navigate Eurasia's geopolitical tensions and to forge transregional routes that channel significant flows of people, resources, and ideas. Beyond the Silk Roads will interest those seeking to understand contemporary iterations of the Silk Road within the context of geopolitics in the region. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425261

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Colonialism in Global Perspective by Kris Manjapra Pdf

A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.

Author : Simon Rofe
Publisher : Key Studies in Diplomacy
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526143704

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Sport and Diplomacy by Simon Rofe Pdf

The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.

Author : Olivia U. Rutazibwa,Robbie Shilliam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317369394

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Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics by Olivia U. Rutazibwa,Robbie Shilliam Pdf

Engagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years. The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics provides a solid reference point for understanding and analyzing global politics from a perspective sensitive to the multiple legacies of colonial and imperial rule. The Handbook introduces and develops cutting-edge analytical frameworks that draw on Black, decolonial, feminist, indigenous, Marxist and postcolonial thought as well as a multitude of intellectual traditions from across the globe. Alongside empirical issue areas that remain crucial to assessing the impact of European and Western colonialism on global politics, the book introduces new issue areas that have arisen due to the mutating structures of colonial and imperial rule. This vital resource is split into five thematic sections, each featuring a brief, orienting introduction: Points of departure Popular postcolonial imaginaries Struggles over the postcolonial state Struggles over land Alternative global imaginaries Providing both a consolidated understanding of the field as it is, and setting an expansive and dynamic research agenda for the future, this handbook is essential reading for students and scholars of International Relations alike.

Author : Cas Mudde
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509536856

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The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde Pdf

The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world’s largest democracies – Brazil, India, and the United States – now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe. In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence. What defines this current far-right renaissance, Mudde argues, is its mainstreaming and normalization within the contemporary political landscape. Challenging orthodox thinking on the relationship between conventional and far-right politics, Mudde offers a complex and insightful picture of one of the key political challenges of our time.

Author : Frantz Fanon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802198853

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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Pdf

The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West’s introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Author : James Tharin Bradford
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501738340

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Poppies, Politics, and Power by James Tharin Bradford Pdf

Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes the opium industry what it is, but the sheer breadth of the twentieth-century Afghanistan experience. Rather than byproducts of a failed contemporary system, argues Bradford, drugs, especially opium, were critical components in the formation and failure of the Afghan state. In this history of drugs and drug control in Afghanistan, Bradford shows us how the country moved from licit supply of the global opium trade to one of the major suppliers of hashish and opium through changes in drug control policy shaped largely by the outside force of the United States. Poppies, Politics, and Power breaks the conventional modes of national histories that fail to fully encapsulate the global nature of the drug trade. By providing a global history of opium within the borders of Afghanistan, Bradford demonstrates that the country's drug trade and the government's position on that trade were shaped by the global illegal market and international efforts to suppress it. By weaving together this global history of the drug trade and drug policy with the formation of the Afghan state and issues within Afghan political culture, Bradford completely recasts the current Afghan, and global, drug trade.

Author : Larry Minear,Hazel Smith
Publisher : UNU
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015069342247

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Humanitarian Diplomacy by Larry Minear,Hazel Smith Pdf

Humanitarian professionals are on the front lines of today's internal armed conflicts, working with politicians and diplomats in countries wracked by violence, in capitals of donor governments that underwrite humanitarian work, as well as within the United Nations Security Council and providing information to the media. This publication sets out a compendium of essays written by 14 senior humanitarian practitioners who led humanitarian operations in settings as diverse as the Balkans and Nepal, Somalia and East Timor, and across a time frame from the 1970s in Cambodia and 1980s in Lebanon to more recent engagement in Colombia and Iraq.

Author : Mountstuart Elphinstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : ONB:+Z183928807

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An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India by Mountstuart Elphinstone Pdf

Author : Kishan S. Rana
Publisher : Diplo Foundation
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Diplomacy
ISBN : 9789990955163

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Bilateral Diplomacy by Kishan S. Rana Pdf

Author : A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479356

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Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics by A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke Pdf

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857459527

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Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa's subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author's sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.