Afghanistan S Political Stability

Author : Ahmad Shayeq Qassem
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317184591

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Afghanistan's Political Stability by Ahmad Shayeq Qassem Pdf

Political stability has been a central theme of policy for all governments and political systems in the history of modern Afghanistan. Since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, the country experimented with a diverse succession of political systems and state ideologies matched by few other countries' political histories. In the span of less than nine decades since independence in 1919, the Afghan state was substantially restructured at least a dozen times. This volume looks at Afghanistan's historic relations with Central and South Asia, ethno-nationalism and development, Soviet occupation and transformation of relations with Pakistan, stability of the Islamic State and regional cooperation. It examines how Afghanistan's different political systems reformed and readjusted policies to make them more conducive to political stability. Yet political stability, at best, has remained a dream unrealized in Afghanistan.

Author : Sunil Dasgupta,United States Institute of Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : OCLC:858942032

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Regional Politics and the Prospects for Stability in Afghanistan by Sunil Dasgupta,United States Institute of Peace Pdf

Author : Thomas Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691154411

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Afghanistan by Thomas Barfield Pdf

Traces the political history of Afghanistan from the sixteenth century to the present, looking at what has united the people as well as the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

Author : Martin Ewans
Publisher : Harper
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0060505079

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Afghanistan by Martin Ewans Pdf

Fascinating, comprehensive, and timely, Afghanistan examines the troubled history of a nation whose global relevance continues to hold the international spotlight. Reaching as far back as the seventh century A.D., when Arab armies imported the new religion of Islam into a predominantly Buddhist country, Martin Ewans shows how centuries of invasions, fierce tribal rivalries, and powerful dynasties led to the creation of an Afghan empire during the eighteenth century. From there he moves on to examine the various milestones on the country's road to the twenty-first century. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afghanistan was caught up in the "Great Game," the struggle between Britain and Russia for supremacy in Central Asia, until it was finally able to declare independence in 1919. The ruling Afghan dynasty was overthrown by a communist coup in the 1970s, which was answered in turn by a Soviet invasion in 1979. Roughly a decade later, the Soviet Union was forced to withdraw and left Afghanistan with a civil war that was to tear apart the nation's last remnants of religious and ethnic unity. It was into this climate that the Taliban was born. What emerges in Ewans's lucid and dispassionate prose is the story of a once powerful empire whose traditions and political stability have in recent years been reduced to ruins. Today Afghanistan is war-torn and economically destitute, struggling under a brutal and extremist regime. Martin Ewans, a former senior diplomat in the British embassy in Afghanistan, carefully and concisely weighs the lessons of history to provide a frank look at Afghanistan's fragile relationship with its neighboring countries and the national and international resonances of the Taliban's concept of Islamic society.

Author : Marvin G. Weinbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : UOM:39015050539769

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Afghanistan and Its Neighbors by Marvin G. Weinbaum Pdf

Author : Scott Seward Smith,Moeed Yusuf,Colin Cookman
Publisher : United States Institute of Peace Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1601271824

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Getting it Right in Afghanistan by Scott Seward Smith,Moeed Yusuf,Colin Cookman Pdf

Building an enduring and stable political consensus in Afghanistan's complex, multiactor environment requires clear analysis of the conflict. Getting It Right in Afghanistan addresses the real drivers of the insurgency, how Afghanistan's neighbors can contribute to peace in the region, and the need for more inclusive political arrangements in peace and reconciliation processes.

Author : Richard Hogg,Claudia Nassif,Camilo Gomez Osorio,William Byrd,Andrew Beath
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821398630

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Afghanistan in Transition by Richard Hogg,Claudia Nassif,Camilo Gomez Osorio,William Byrd,Andrew Beath Pdf

This book examines the implications of international military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 for the country's future economic growth, fiscal sustainability, public sector capacity, and service delivery.

Author : Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408831205

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Little America by Rajiv Chandrasekaran Pdf

The author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize) now gives us the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the struggle between President Obama and the US military to remake Afghanistan.

Author : Sten Rynning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786721341

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South Asia and the Great Powers by Sten Rynning Pdf

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics. This book asks whether the region's great powers can overcome opposing interests and commit to political restraint. The concept of regional security is based on great power support for regional order. However, there are many pitfalls to consider: notably, the politics of contested nationalisms; the Asia-Pacific rivalry of China and the US; and India's inclinations to function - or be seen - as a benevolent hegemon for the region. Yet there are signs of renewed determination to move the region in new directions. While China's Silk Road projects are long-term regional investments that hinge on regional stability, the US is attempting to fashion new partnerships and India strives to reconcile regional differences to promote a peaceful environment.This book, as it sets out the emerging agendas of the great powers and local powers, makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of the international relations and diplomatic politics of South Asia.

Author : Hamid Wahed Alikuzai
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781490714462

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A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Pdf

For 35,000 years ancient Afghanistan was called Aryana (the Light of God) has existed. Then in 747 AD what is today called Afghanistan became Khorasan (which means Sunrise in Dari) which was a much larger geographical area. In the middle of the nineteenth century the name Afghanistan, which means home of the united tribes, was applied originally by the Saxons (present day British) and the Russians. During the Great Games in the middle of nineteenth century, the Durand Line was created in 1893 and was in place until 1993. Saxons created the state of Afghanistan out of a geographical area roughly the size of Texas: in 1893 before which there were 10 million square kilometers, larger than the size of Canada, as means to act as a buffer zone between the Saxon-India & Tsarist-Russia and the Chinese.

Author : Jim Willis,Anthony R. Fellow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440840050

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Tweeting to Freedom by Jim Willis,Anthony R. Fellow Pdf

This book provides an insightful and comprehensive look at the issues regarding the use of the Internet and social media by activists in more than 30 countries—and how many governments in these countries are trying to blunt these efforts to promote freedom. The innovators who created social media might never have imagined the possibility: that activists living in countries where oppressive conditions are the norm would use social media to call for changes to bring greater freedom, opportunity, and justice to the masses. The attributes of social media that make it so powerful for casual socializing—the ability to connect with nearly limitless numbers of like-minded individuals instantaneously—enables political activists to recruit, communicate, and organize like never before. This book examines three aspects of the use of social media for political activism: the degrees of media freedom practiced in countries around the world; the methods by which governments attempt to block access to information; and the various ways in which activists use the media—especially social media—to advance their cause of greater freedoms. Readers will learn how these political uprisings came from the grassroots efforts of oppressed and unhappy citizens desperate to make better lives for themselves and others like them—and how the digital age is allowing them to protest and call attention to their plights in unprecedented ways.

Author : Noah Coburn,Anna Larson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231166201

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Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan by Noah Coburn,Anna Larson Pdf

This volume shows how Afghani elections since 2004 have threatened to derail the country’s fledgling democracy. Examining presidential, parliamentary, and provincial council elections and conducting interviews with more than one hundred candidates, officials, community leaders, and voters, the text shows how international approaches to Afghani elections have misunderstood the role of local actors, who have hijacked elections in their favor, alienated communities, undermined representative processes, and fueled insurgency, fostering a dangerous disillusionment among Afghan voters.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D03628985B

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State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2013: Dept. of State fiscal year 2013 budget justification by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Pdf

Author : Leon-Manriquez, Jose Luis,Moyo, Theresa
Publisher : CODESRIA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782869786370

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The Global Financial and Economic Crisis in the South by Leon-Manriquez, Jose Luis,Moyo, Theresa Pdf

This book is the outcome of a South-South conference jointly organized by the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, May 2012. The conference was organised in response to the financial crisis of 2008 which started in the United States and Europe, with reverberating effects on a global scale. Economic problems emanating from such crises usually leave major social and structural impacts on important sectors of the society internationally. They affect living standards and constrain the well-being of people, especially in poor countries. Persistent problems include high unemployment, increased debt and low growth in developed countries, as well as greater difficulties in accessing finance for investment in the developing world. There is a need for countries in the South to examine the available options for appropriate national and regional responses to the different problems emanating from the economic crisis. This book attempts to provide ideas on some strategic responses to the disastrous impact of the crisis, while keeping in mind the global common interest of the South. It is hoped that the book will contribute significantly towards the agenda to rethink development and the quest for alternative paradigms for a just, stable and equitable global political, economic and social system. A system in which Africa, Asia, and Latin America are emancipated from the shackles of hegemonic and anachronistic neoliberal dictates that have nothing more to offer than crises, vulnerabilities and dependency.

Author : Nazif Shahrani
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253033260

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Modern Afghanistan by Nazif Shahrani Pdf

What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the "global war on terror" now stretches into the 21st century with no clear end in sight, Identity and Politics in Modern Afghanistan collects the work of interdisciplinary scholars, aid workers, and citizens to assess the impact of this prolonged conflict on Afghanistan. Nearly all of the people in Afghan society have been affected by persistent violent conflict. Identity and Politics in Modern Afghanistan focuses on social and political dynamics, issues of gender, and the shifting relationships between tribal, sectarian, and regional communities. Contributors consider topics ranging from masculinity among the Afghan Pashtun to services offered for the disabled, and from Taliban extremism to the role of TV in the Afghan culture wars. Prioritizing the perspective and experiences of the people of Afghanistan, new insights are shared into the lives of those who are hoping to build a secure future on the rubble of a violent past.