Afghanistan

Over the last three decades Afghanistan has been plagued by crisis - from Soviet invasion in 1979 and Taliban rule to US invasion following the events of 9/11. Here the top specialists on Afghanistan, including Olivier Roy, Ahmad Rashid and Jonathan Goodhand, provide a unique overview of the evolution, causes and future of the Afghan crisis. Covering political and military events and examining the role of ethnic groups, religious and ideological factors and the role of the leaders and war chiefs of the period - from the anti-Soviet resistance to the presidency of Hamid Karzai - this book will prove essential reading to all interested in Afghanistan and the wider Middle East region. Examining recent events in the light of the country's economy, Afghan civil society, cultural heritage and state reconstruction attempts, this is a comprehensive and diverse look at a country whose recent history has been marked by internal conflicts and foreign intervention.

Micheline Centlivres-Demont is an anthropologist and specialist on Afghanistan. She has been the editor of Afghanistan Info, an analytical periodical, since 1980. She is the author of Popular Art in Afghanistan: Paintings on Trucks, Mosques and Tea-Houses, and the co-author of Portraits d'Afghanistan, Revoir Kaboul and Afghanistan on the Threshold of the 21st Century.

Micheline Centlivres-Demont Foreword
Olivier Roy Introduction
PART I:The PDPA Regime, 1978 - 1989
1. Micheline Centlivres-Demont The Bridge on the Amu-Daria 
2. Aziz Zekrya   All Roads lead to Rome 
3. Michel Foucher The Geopolitical Stakes from the Soviet Point of View
4. Jean-Christophe Victor   Pakistan on the Front Line 
5. Erwin Grötzbach  The Afghanistan Land Reform of 1979 Aftermath
6. Chantal Lobato  The Kabul Government
7. Rémy Dor   What is Becoming of the Kyrgyz in Turkey? 
8. Olivier Roy The Afghan Situation in Summer 1987
9. Olivier Roy  Towards a Soviet Withdrawal? 
10. Pierre Centlivres and Micheline Centlivres-Demont  Afghan Women Today 
11. Mushahid Hussain Pakistan and the Afghan Issue
12. Selig S. Harrison Afghanistan: an American View
13. Rolf Bindemann The Political Reconstruction of Afghanistan
14. Pierre Centlivres The Russians Ready to intervene in Afghanistan
PART II
The Mujahedeen Moment, 1990-1996
15. Jean-José Puig Finding a Political Solution
16. Mushahid Hussain Pakistan's Afghan Policy: No Light at the End of the Tunnel
17. Arnold Hottinger Afghanistan and the Arab World 
18. William Maley Consociationalism and Afghan Political Order
19.William Maley The Reconstruction of the Afghan State
20. Nancy Hatch Dupree Afghan Women view the Future
21. Bernard Dupaigne Herat, a Model and an Opportunity for Afghanistan
22. Asta Olesen Reflections on the political Development since the Fall of the PDPA Regime
23. Frédéric Grare From Pashtunistan to Central Asia»
24. Barnett R. Rubin The Instability of Power
25. Rolf Bindemann  Ethnicity Cannot be the Basis for a Common Policy
26. Sayyid Qasim Reshtia Some Reflection on the Pashtunistan Problem
PART III
Afghanistan under the Taliban, 1996-2001
27. Olivier Roy  Regional Impact of the Taliban Breakthrough
28. William Maley The Taliban : Fundamentalist, Traditionalist or
Totalitarian?
29. Nancy Hatch Dupree The Kabul Museum under the Taliban
30. Ludwig Adamec Greater Afghanistan - A missed Chance?
31. Barnett R. Rubin The End of US Policy toward Afghanistan?
32. Citha Maass Taliban : The New Forces of Law and Order 
33. Gilles Dorronsoro  The Taliban : new revolutionary Dynamics and regional
Context
34. Peter Marsden The Impact of the Taliban on the Afghan Economy
35. John Baily The Culture of Music in the Afghan transnational Community
36. Ahmed Rashid Afghanistan's War Economy and Global Reach
37. Pierre Centlivres Farewell to the Buddhas of Bamiyan 
PART IV
After the Taliban
38. Olivier Roy Afghanistan after the Taliban
39. Antonio Giustozzi Ethnicity and Politics in Afghanistan. The Role
played by Setam-e melli
40. Christophe de Ponfilly Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Man behind the Legend 
41. William Maley Reconstituting State Power in Afghanistan
42. Gilbert Etienne A Bad Start to Reconstruction
43. Alessandro Monsutti Letter to a Father
44. Raphy Favre Agriculture in Afghanistan. A Contribution for a better Understanding
45. Ahmed Rashid Afghanistan and Pakistan
46. Micheline Centlivres-Demont  The New Afghan Constitution 
47. Antonio Donini What went wrong? Humanitarianism in Crisis in Afghanistan
48. Conrad Schetter Five Theses on Structural Instability of Afghanistan