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Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan

Hardcover • 2008 • English

Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan

By Antonio Giustozzi

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Since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, the Bush administration has celebrated the imminent demise of the Taliban, with claims of a moral and psychological defeat playing a prominent role in the presidential elections of 2004. Some commentators suggested that reconstruction and development had won over the Afghan population, despite widespread criticism of the meager distribution of aid and failed attempts at nation building, not to mention the infamous corruption of Kabul's power-hoar...Show more

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9780231700092

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan

Format

Hardcover

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