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Title: Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan
Author: NUNAN TIMOTHY
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 22/01/2016
Imprint: CAMBRIDGE UNI PRESS
Price: $160.00
Publishing status: INDENT ONLY
Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, Timothy Nunan forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the front lines of the Cold War. Nunan argues that Afghanistan functioned as a laboratory for the future of the Third World nation-state. If, in the 1960s, Soviets, Americans, and Germans sought to make a territorial national economy for Afghanistan, later, under military occupation, Soviet nation-builders, French and Swedish humanitarians, and Pakistani-supported guerrillas fought a transnational civil war over Afghan statehood. Covering the entire period from the Cold War to Taliban rule, Humanitarian Invasion signals the beginning of a new stage in the writing of international history.
Series: Global and International History
ISBN: 9781107112070
Weight: 650g
Dimension: 228mm X 152mm
Pages: 332