Istanbul and Bonn conferences : building blocks of the Afghan transition process / by Sultan, Hodei

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Nation-building unraveled? : aid, peace and justice in Afghanistan /

Table of Contents: “…The politics of peacebuilding: year one: from Bonn to Kabul /…”
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Afghanistan's troubled transition : politics, peacekeeping, and the 2004 presidential election / by Smith, Scott Seward, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Bonn agreement -- Signposts of democracy: the emergency Loya Jirga -- Plans and personalities -- Budgets and donors -- Security and the Baghdad effect -- Drafting the constitution -- Resetting the electoral clock -- Voter registration: turning victims into citizens -- Democracy and the Durand line -- Drafting the electoral law -- Applying the law -- Countdown to election day -- Polling and counting -- The 2005 parliamentary elections -- Reckonings: the 2009 presidential elections -- Logistics, politics, and transitions.…”
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Nation-building unraveled? : aid, peace and justice in Afghanistan /

Table of Contents: “…Afghanistan, war, aid, and international order / Nicholas Stockton -- The politics of peacebuilding: year one: from Bonn to Kabul / J. Alexander Thier -- Justice postponed: the marginalization of human rights / Norah Niland -- The struggle for hearts and minds: the military, aid, and the media / Kate Clark -- Afghan women on the margins of the Twenty-first Century / Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam -- Principles, politics, and pragmatism in the international response to the Afghan crisis / Antonio Donini -- The dilemma of humanitarianism in the post-Taliban transition / Alexander Costy -- Political projects: reform, aid, and the state in Afghanistan / Nicholas Leader and Mohammad Hanif Atmar -- Old woods, new paths, and diverging choices for NGOs / Paul O'Brien -- Aid, peace and justice in a reordered world / Bruce D. …”

A military history of Afghanistan : from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror / by Jalali, Ali Ahmad

Table of Contents: “…A distinct geography and a turbulent history -- Highlights of the past, ancient era to 1800 -- The great game and the British invasion of Afghanistan, 1809-1839 -- The first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842 -- Geopolitical changes in Central Asia leading to the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1878 -- The second phase of the second Anglo-Afghan war, 1879-1881 -- A period of uneasy peace and the third Anglo-Afghan war, 1880-1919 -- Afghanistan under King Amanullah and the civil war, 1919-1929 -- The Cold War and the Soviet invasion, 1929-1979 -- Soviet occupation and the war of resistance, 1979-1989 -- The civil war and the rise of the Taliban, 1989-2001 -- U.S. invasion, the fall of the Taliban and the Bonn process, 2001-2005.…”
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A military history of Afghanistan : from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror / by Jalali, Ali Ahmad

Table of Contents: “…A distinct geography and a turbulent history -- Highlights of the past, ancient era to 1800 -- The great game and the British invasion of Afghanistan, 1809-1839 -- The first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842 -- Geopolitical changes in Central Asia leading to the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1878 -- The second phase of the second Anglo-Afghan war, 1879-1881 -- A period of uneasy peace and the third Anglo-Afghan war, 1880-1919 -- Afghanistan under King Amanullah and the civil war, 1919-1929 -- The Cold War and the Soviet invasion, 1929-1979 -- Soviet occupation and the war of resistance, 1979-1989 -- The civil war and the rise of the Taliban, 1989-2001 -- U.S. invasion, the fall of the Taliban and the Bonn process, 2001-2005.…”
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Games without rules : the often interrupted history of Afghanistan / by Ansary, Mir Tamim

Table of Contents: “…The Mujahideen ; Cold war endgame ; From horror to chaos ; Out of the camps ; Taliban versus Mujahideen ; Al Qaeda ; America enters the picture -- The struggle resumes. The Bonn project ; Kabul spring ; The persistence of trouble ; Drugs and corruption ; Talibanism ; The tipping point ; Obama's surges ; All that glitters -- Postscript.…”