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  • The Taliban at War

    2001 - 2021

    by Antonio Giustozzi ...
    How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement's extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban's external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which have affected the Taliban's military campaigns and internal politics. Secondly, this is the first full ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Central Asia–Afghanistan Relationship

    From Soviet Intervention to the Silk Road Initiatives

    by Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Bruce Pannier, Bota Rakisheva, Antonio Giustozzi, Marlene Laruelle, Sebastien Peyrouse, Gael Raballand, Gulden Ashkenova, Ekaterina Stepanova, Alexander Diener0 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    Central Asia is a relatively understudied neighbor of Afghanistan. The region is often placed into a number of historical and political contexts—a section of the Silk Road, a pawn in the “Great Game,” the “spillover” state that exemplifies the failure of US foreign policy—that limit scholarly understanding.This edited volume contributes by providing a broad, long-term analysis of the Central Asia ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Jihadism in Pakistan

    Al-Qaeda, Islamic State and the Local Militants

    by Antonio Giustozzi ...
    Pakistan is host to the largest concentration of jihadist groups in the world. Since the 1980s, the Pakistani state has been accused of sponsoring local jihadist groups and sending Pakistani volunteers to support them.This book is based on almost 114 interviews, conducted mainly in Urdu and Pashto, from within Al-Qaeda and affiliated jihadist groups. It examines the relationship between the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Islamic State in Khorasan

    Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad

    by Antonio Giustozzi ...
    So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan at least. This book, by one of the leading experts on Islamist insurgency in the region, explores the nature of IS in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Post-conflict Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration

    Bringing State-building Back In

    Edited by Antonio Giustozzi ...
    Series series Global Security in a Changing World
    This book revisits post-Cold War Disarmament Disintegration and Reintegration (DDR) programmes in the light of previous experiences of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration. In the history of North America and Europe, in particular, such programmes had a major impact on state-building, contributing to the development of the welfare state, shaping political settlements and directing ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics and Religion

    Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion

    Edited by Peter Bergen, Katherine Tiedemann ...
    The longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. But when we speak of "Afghanistan," we really mean a conflict that straddles the border with Pakistan--and the reality of Islamic militancy on that border is enormously complicated. In Talibanistan, an unparalleled group of experts offer a nuanced understanding of this critical region. Edited by Peter Bergen, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • An Enemy We Created

    The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan

    by Alex Strick van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn ...
    To this day, the belief is widespread that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwined, and that they have made common cause against the West for decades. In An Enemy We Created, Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn debunk this myth and reveal the much more complex reality that lies beneath it. Drawing upon their unprecedented fieldwork ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Daughters of Kobani

    A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

    by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won“The Daughters of Kobani is an unforgettable and nearly mythic tale of women's power and courage. The young women profiled in this book fought a fearsome war against brutal men in impossible circumstances—and proved in the process what girls and women can accomplish when given the chance to lead. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Inside the Middle East

    Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth

    by Avi Melamed ...
    Acclaimed Israeli intelligence analyst Avi Melamed has spent more than thirty years interpreting Middle East affairs. His long-awaited Inside the Middle East challenges widely-accepted perceptions and provides a gripping and uniquely enlightening guide to make sense of the events unfolding in the region-to answer how the Arab world got to this point, what is currently happening, what the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Wrong Enemy

    America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014

    by Carlotta Gall ...
    A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides "an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan" ( Financial Times).Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was ... Read more

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  • Don't Panic

    ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    It took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called "Islamic State" into existence. Can we somehow manage to avoid the well-trodden path of overreacting to the provocations of Islamist extremists?With the rise of ISIS, a new style of terrorism that publicly gloats over acts of extreme cruelty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The American War in Afghanistan

    A History

    by Carter Malkasian ...
    A New York Times Notable Book Winner of 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize The first authoritative history of America's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon — but only after a stay of nearly two ... Read more

    $16.19 USD