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  • Under Contract

    The Invisible Workers of America's Global War

    by Noah Coburn ...
    War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual jobs, often to the lowest bidder. An "American" base in Afghanistan or Iraq will be staffed with ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Bazaar Politics

    Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town

    by Noah Coburn ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Bazaar Politics

    Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town

    by Noah Coburn ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Losing Afghanistan

    An Obituary for the Intervention

    by Noah Coburn ...
    The U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of dollars flowed into the country. But what was gained for Afghanistan—or for the international community that footed the bill? Why did development money not lead to more development? Why did a military ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Last Days of the Afghan Republic

    A Doomed Evacuation Twenty Years in the Making

    by Arsalan Noori, Noah Coburn ...
    It is difficult to overstate the chaos of August 2021 for many of those in Afghanistan, particularly those who had worked closely with the international community there. In a matter of days, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and an insurgency threw out a government the international community had spent 20 years and billions of dollars supporting. A government that claimed to stand for women’s ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan

    Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape

    by Noah Coburn, Anna Larson ...
    Since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, researchers, policymakers, and the media have failed to consider the long-term implications of the country's post-conflict elections. Based on fieldwork in provinces across the country and interviews with more than seven hundred candidates, officials, community leaders, and voters, this book builds an in-depth portrait of Afghanistan's recent elections as ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Modern Afghanistan

    The Impact of 40 Years of War

    by Sonia Ahsan, Parul Bakhshi, Bashir Ahmed Ansari, Just Boedeker, Noah Coburn, Andrea Chiovenda, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Amin Saikal, Fahim Masoud, M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar, Khalid Homayun Nadiri, Anna Larson, Kylea Liese, Mohammad Omar Shariki, Wazhmah Osman, Ahmad Shayeq Qassem, Timor Sharan, Trani Jean-Francois, Robert L. Canfield ...
    What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the "global war on terror" now stretches into the 21st century with no clear end in sight, Identity and Politics in Modern Afghanistan collects the work of interdisciplinary scholars, aid workers, and citizens to assess the impact of this prolonged conflict on Afghanistan. Nearly all of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Impacts of Innovative Institutions in Higher Education

    Edited by Noah Coburn, Ryan Derby-Talbot ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    As they have done historically, innovative institutions enrich the college ecosystem, helping the higher educational industry develop flexible resilience. The chapters in this book showcase perspectives, hard-won lessons, challenges and provocative ideas about how historically innovative institutions can contribute to the current discourse on innovation in higher education. The chapters in this ... Read more

    $152.09 USD