Afghanistan's 14-year-long civil war erupted in 1978 and ended in the disintegration of a state that was first hyperarmed by the superpowers and then abandoned by them. This text analyzes the part played by international politics in this debacle, discussing how changing patterns of strategic conflict and co-operation have affected international negotiations over Afghanistan from the period of the civil war to the present. Drawing on interviews with officials of the United Nations and of various governments, Barnett Rubin recounts the ultimate failure of the Geneva Accords of 1988 to deal effectively with the Afghans' domestic conflict and to establish US-Soviet co-operation in rebuilding Afghanistan. When the Cold War ended and USSR disintegrated, Afghanistan lost its strategic significance, notes Rubin. The people of this impoverished land were left to fight over their future with sophisticated weapons and little other outside assistance. Integrating theories of international relations and domestic politics, Rubin analyzes how buffer states are formed through international co-operation, and how this leads to both specific patterns of state formation and particular problems of regime change.
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The sequel to Barnett S. Rubin's The Fragmentation of Afghanistan, this volume relates the more recent history of a country that has been ruined in a proxy Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, then summarily abandoned to a violent anarchy fueled by outside money and weapons. Rubin, who worked as a human rights monitor in the region, details how Afghanistan moved from being a nonaligned buffer state between the superpowers, to being the meat in their sandwich. His perceptive analysis is essential background for anyone concerned with pursuing peace in Afghanistan.
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Mr. Rubin remarks that if the United States and its allies won the cold war, no ally paid more for this goal than the people of Afghanistan. -- The New York Times Book Review, Karl E. Meyer
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- Post-Soviet Political Order by Barnett Rubin in Front Matter, page 161, and Back Matter
- Pakistan And The Emergence Of Islamic Militancy In Afghanistan by Rizwan Hussain on page 161, page 162, and Back Matter
- Doomed in Afghanistan: A UN Officer's Memoir of the Fall of Kabul and Najibullah's Failed Escape, 1992 by Phillip Corwin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons from Development Experience by John D. Montgomery on page 28, and page 71
- US-Pakistan Relationship: Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan (Us Foreign Policy and Conflict in the Islamic World) by A. Z. Hilali on page 99, and page 184
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