TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saikal,Amin
AU  - Ravan Farhadi,A.G.
AU  - Nourzhanov,Kirill
TI  - Modern Afghanistan: a history of struggle and survival 
SN  - 9781780761220 (pbk.)
AV  - DS359 .S24 2012
U1  - 958.1 23
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - First published in hardback in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD; first published in paperback in 2006 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD; Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-380) and index; From tribal confederacy to national coalescence -- National awakening and nationalism -- Independence and radical modernisation -- The Nadiri dynasty: politics of national gradualism and 'royal dualism' -- The cold war and the rise of a rentier state -- Experiment with a democracy, 1963-1973 -- Daoud's republicanism -- Communist rule, the Soviet invasion and resistance -- Mujahideen Islamic rule and Taliban extremism -- US intervention and the Karzai era
ER  -