Fundamentalism reborn? : Afghanistan and the Taliban /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c1998. |
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| Description: | xiii, 253 p. : 1 map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3040531 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- The Authors
- Map of Afghanistan
- Introduction: Interpreting the Taliban
- Afghanistan's path to crisis
- The northern crisis
- The social and doctrinal roots of the Taliban
- On fundamentalism, traditionalism, and totalitarianism
- Making sense of the Taliban
- Part I. The Rise of the Taliban
- The Rabbani Government, 1992-1996
- Political legitimacy
- Elite settlement
- Intra-party difficulties
- Pakistan's interference
- How the Taliban became a military force
- The military rise of the Taliban
- The south
- Kabul
- The west
- Kabul again
- The campaign in the east and the seizure of Kabul
- Pakistan and the Taliban
- The Taliban and the Jamiat-e Ulema-i Islam
- The Taliban and the transport mafia
- The Taliban and the Bhutto government
- The Taliban and Pakistan's provincial governments
- The Taliban and the ISI
- Part II. The Taliban and the World
- The United States and the Taliban
- Shaping US policy
- The evolution of US policy
- US interests and the Taliban
- Building support for pipelines
- The breakdown of US policy
- Russia, Central Asia and the Taliban
- Responding to disintegration
- The Taliban's northern campaign
- Arms supplies
- Saudi Arabia, Iran and the conflict in Afghanistan
- Period One: 1979-1988
- Period Two: 1988-1992
- Period Three: 1992 to the present
- Shifting interests and strategies
- The influence of the wider world
- Part III. The Taliban and the Reconstruction of Afghanistan
- Dilemmas of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan
- Key dilemmas
- Reservations about the UN's agenda
- The challenge of the Taliban
- The eyes of the world
- Afghan women under the Taliban
- Actions and reactions
- Afghan responses
- Part IV. Paths to the Future
- Is Afghanistan on the brink of ethnic and tribal disintegration?
- Introduction: The ethnic system
- The main ethnic groups in the Afghan conflict
- The tribal system
- Ethnicity and tribalism: dangers and opportunities
- The UN in Afghanistan: 'Doing its best' or 'Failure of a Mission'?
- Peacemaking diplomacy
- UN mediation in Afghanistan
- The failure of the Mestiri Mission
- Missing the heart of the Afghan problem
- Has Islamism a future in Afghanistan?
- From traditionalism to fundamentalism to Islamism ... and back
- Afghan Islamism and the rest of the Muslim world
- The Afghan context
- The Taliban and the future of political Islam in Afghanistan
- The future of the state and the structure of community governance in Afghanistan
- A political ecological approach
- Constitutive cultural principles, identities and political culture
- Traditional (imperial) states and community self-governance
- The development of a strong dynastic state and the destruction of self-governing communities
- Legacies of Hukumat-e mutamarkiz-e qawi
- From military victory to political misery: contingencies
- The possibility of a new relation between civil society and the future state
- Index
