Afghanistan

In Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG, Barnett Rubin, a leading scholar of Afghanistan and former advisor to both the UN and the US State Department, distills decades of research in a concise yet rich overview of this complicated nation.

Barnett R. Rubin is Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Center for International Cooperation, New York University. He also served in the Obama Administration as Senior Advisor to Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rubin is the author of The Fragmentation of Afghanistan (Yale) and Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror (Oxford).

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Afghanistan Map
Chapter 1: Afghanistan Seen by Others
Chapter 2: The Land and the People
Chapter 3: State and Politics
Chapter 4: Communist Coup, Islamic Resistance
Chapter 5: Civil War: Islamic State to Islamic Emirate
Chapter 6: 9/11, International Intervention, and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Chapter 7: Reconstruction and Development
Chapter 8: Narcotics and Counter-Narcotics
Chapter 9: More War, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency
Chapter 10: Peace or More War?
Co-Author Biographies
Bibliography
Index