Decoding the new Taliban :  insights from the Afghan field  / 
editor, Antonio Giustozzi. 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  c2009. 
 - xiii, 318 p. :  ill., maps ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The Taliban and the opium trade / Gretchen S. Peters -- Reading the Taliban / Joanna Nathan -- The resurgence of the Taliban in Kabul: Logar and Wardak / Mohammad Osman Tariq Elias -- Loya Paktia's insurgency / Thomas Ruttig and Sébastien Trives -- The return of the Taliban in Andar district: Ghazni / Christoph Reuter and Borhan Younus -- The Taliban in Helmand: an oral history / Tom Coghlan -- Unruly commanders and violent power struggles: Taliban networks in Uruzgan / Martine van Bijlert -- Taliban in Zabul: a witness' account / Abdul Awwal Zabulwal -- What Kandahar's Taliban say / Graeme Smith -- The Taliban's marches: Herat, Farah, Baghdis and Ghor / Antonio Giustozzi -- Taliban and counter-insurgency in Kunar / David Kilcullen -- Northern exposure for the Taliban / Sippi Azerbaijani Moghaddam -- The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan / Claudio Franco. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231701129 0231701128 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009015843 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Taliban.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Insurgency--History--Afghanistan--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Afghanistan--Politics and government--2001-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS371.4  / .D43 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>958.104/7