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• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Map of Afghanistan
• Part I. The Pdpa Regime, 1978–89
• 1. The Bridge on the Amu Darya
• 2. All Roads Lead to Rome
• 3. The Geopolitical Stakes from the Soviet Point of View
• 4. Pakistan on the Frontline
• 5. The Land Reform of 1979 and Its Aftermath
• 6. The Kabul Government Institutions
• 7. What Is Becoming of the Kyrgyz in Turkey?
• 8. The Afghan Situation in Summer 1987
• 9. Towards a Soviet Withdrawal?
• 10. Afghan Women Today
• 11. Pakistan and the Afghan Issue
• 12. Afghanistan: An American View
• 13. The Political Reconstruction of Afghanistan: The Hazaras a Hundred Years after Abdur Rahman
• 14. The Russians Ready to Intervene in Afghanistan at France’s Request: A Century Ago
• Part II. The Mujahedeen Moment, 1990–95
• 15. Finding a Political Solution: Rejection or Participation
• 16. Pakistan’s Afghan Policy: No Light at the End of the Tunnel Mushahid Hussain
• 17. Afghanistan and the Arab World
• 18. Consociationalism and Afghan Political Order
• 19. The Reconstitution of the Afghan State
• 20. Afghan Women View the Future
• 21. Herat: A Model and an Opportunity for Afghanistan
• 22. Reflections on the Political Development since the Fall of the PDPA Regime
• 23. From Pashtunistan to Central Asia: Pakistan’s Afghan Policy
• 24. The Instability of Power
• 25. Ethnicity Cannot Be the Basis for a Common Policy: The Hazara Failure in the Struggle for Afghan
• 26. Some Reflections on the Pashtunistan Problem
• Part III. Afghanistan Under The Taliban, 1996–2001
• 27. Regional Impact of the Taliban Breakthrough
• 28. The Taliban: Fundamentalist, Traditionalist or Totalitarian?
• 29. The Kabul Museum under the Taliban
• 30. Greater Afghanistan: A Missed Chance?
• 31. The End of US Policy Towards Afghanistan?
• 32. The Taliban: The New Forces of Law and Order in Afghanistan
• 33. The Taliban: Revolutionary Dynamic and Regional Environment
• 34. The Impact of the Taliban on the Afghan Economy
• 35. The Culture of Music in the Afghan Transnational Community
• 36. Afghanistan’s War Economy and Global Reach
• 37. Farewell to the Buddhas of Bamiyan
• Part IV. After The Taliban
• 38. Afghanistan after the Taliban
• 39. Ethnicity and Politics in Afghanistan: The Role Played by Setam-e melli
• 40. Ahmad Shah Massoud: The Man Behind the Legend
• 41. Reconstituting State Power in Afghanistan
• 42. A Bad Start to Reconstruction
• 43. Letter to a Father: Bashfulness and Emotion in the Midst of Migration
• 44. Agriculture in Afghanistan: A Contribution to a Better Understanding
• 45. Afghanistan and Pakistan
• 46. The New Afghan Constitution
• 47. What Went Wrong? Humanitarianism in Crisis in Afghanistan
• 48. Five Theses on the Structural Instability of Afghanistan
• 49. Founding a New Islamic State in Afghanistan
• 50. Making a Presidential System Work
• 51. The Uzbeks of Afghanistan since the End of Taliban Rule
• 52. How Many Nomads Are There in Afghanistan?
• 53. Campaign Harvests: Media Coverage of the Presidential Elections of October 2004
• 54. Buzkashi Then and Now
• 55. Processes of Political Ethnicization in Today’s Afghanistan
• 56. Order and Justice in Afghanistan: Some Reflections on the Problem of Amnesty
• Part V. An Evolving Future
• 57. The Afghan Roots of the Neo-Taliban Movement
• 58. Soviets and Westerners in Afghanistan: What Elements of Continuity?
• 59. NGOs and Afghanistan: New Challenges, Old Dilemmas
• 60. State Administration and Local Power Brokers in Afghanistan’s Provinces
• 61. Afghanistan and the Global Failure of Counter-Narcotics
• 62. President Obama and the Future of US Policy in Afghanistan
• 63. A Muted Voice? Religious Actors and Civil Society in Post-2001 Afghanistan
• 64. Defending Urban Heritage
• 65. The Hazaras in Afghanistan: Origins and Linguistic Evidence
• 66. The Future of the Afghan National Army: Problems and Reforms
• 67. Afghan Cultural Heritage as Seen by the Afghans
• 68. Will the US Achieve a Permanent Military Presence in Afghanistan?
• 69. Afghanistan 2011: An Archipelago of Sovereignties
• 70. Negotiating with the Taliban
• 71. Towards a New Civil War? Western Withdrawal and the Dynamics of Regionalization
• 72. Young Afghanistani Refugees in Iran: Professional Training, Work and Perspectives
• 73. China and Afghanistan: A New Phase?
• 74. Afghanistan 2014: Another Excuse for Yet More Disaster?
• Main Afghan Mujahedeen Parties
• Chronology
• List of Acronyms
• List of Contributors
• Index