Politics and Government
A great deal has happened over the last decade or so that affects the lives of the Afghan people. Learning about the politics and government can help with understanding the lives of these people.
Free Internet Resources:
"Afghanistan on the Eve of Parliamentary and Provincial Elections.” Aug. 2005. Human Rights Watch. Accessed 30 June 2006 http://hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/afghanistan0905/
Benard, Cheryl and Nina Hachigian, eds. Democracy and Islam in the New Constitution of Afghanistan. Proc. of RAND Conference, Center for Asia Pacific Policy, Jan. 28, 2003. Santa Monica, CA.: RAND, 2003. RAND Corporation. RAND. Accessed 30 June 2006 http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF186/CF186.pdf
Zarifi, Sam. "Afghan Election Diary." Blog Postings. 12-19 September 2005. Human Rights Watch. Accessed 15 June 2006 http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=afghan
Periodical Articles:
Emadi, Hafizullah. "Exporting Iran's Revolution: The Radicalization
of the Shiite Movements in Afghanistan." Middle Eastern Studies
31.1 (1995): 1-12.
Kakar, Hasan. "The Fall of the Afghan Monarchy in 1973."
International Journal of Middle East Studies 9.2 (1978): 195-214.
Malkin, Lawrence. World Policy Journal; Reflections in a Distorted
Mirror. Vol. 17. World Policy Institute, 2000. .
Payind, Alam. "Soviet-Afghan Relations from Cooperation to
Occupation." International Journal of Middle East Studies 21.1
(1989): 107-28.
Rubin, Barnett R. "Afghanistan Under the Taliban." Current History
98.625 (1999): 79.
---. "Political Elites in Afghanistan: Rentier State Building, Rentier
State Wrecking." International Journal of Middle East Studies
24.1 (1992): 77-99.
Shahrani, Nazif M. "War, Factionalism, and the State in
Afghanistan." American Anthropologist 104.3 (2002): 715-22.
"Political Elites in Afghanistan: Rentier State Building, Rentier
State Wrecking." International Journal of Middle East Studies
24.1 (1992): 77-99.
Books:
Anderson, Ewan W., and Nancy Hatch Dupree. The Cultural Basis
of Afghan Nationalism. London ; Pinter Publishers, 1990. Call
number: DS380,A35 C85 1990
Barth, Kelly. The Rise and Fall of the Taliban. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2005. Call number: DS371.3 .R58 2005
Bradsher, Henry S. Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1983. Call number: DS357.6.S65 B7 1983
Ghani, Abdul, and Abdul Jaleel Najfi. A Brief Political History of
Afghanistan. 1st ed. Lahore: Najaf Publishers : Can be had from,
Maktaba-e-Aliya, 1989. Call number: DS357.5.G38 1989
Johnson, Chris, and Jolyon Leslie. Afghanistan : The Mirage of
Peace. London ; Zed Books, 2004. Call number: DS371.3.J64
2004
Johnson, Chris. Afghanistan, a Land in Shadow. Oxford: Oxfam,
1998.
Call number: DS351.5 .J637 1998
Jones, Ann. Kabul in Winter : Life without Peace in Afghanistan. 1st
ed. New York: Metropolitan, 2006. Call number: DS375.K2 J66
2006
Klass, Rosanne. Afghanistan, the Great Game Revisited. New York, N.Y.; Lanham, MD: Freedom House; Distributed by UPA, 1987. Call number: DS357.6.S65 A35 1987
Mukherjee, Sadhan. Afghanistan from Tragedy to Triumph. New
Delhi: Sterling, 1984. Call number: DS371.2.M851 1984
Newell, Richard S. The Politics of Afghanistan. Ithaca NY: Cornell UP, 1972. Call number: DS369.4 .N44
Rais, Rasul Bux. War without Winners : Afghanistan's Uncertain
Transition After the Cold War. 1st ed. Karachi, Pakistan ; Oxford
University Press, 1994. Call number: DS371.2.R35 1994
Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven, CT, Yale UP, 2001. Call number:DS371.2 .R367 2000
Roy, Olivier. Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986. Call number:BP63.A54 R6813 1986
Rubin, Barnett R. The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System. 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2002. Call number: DS371.2 .R8 2002
Warikoo, K. The Afghanistan Crisis: Issues and Perspectives. New Delhi: Bhavana, 2002. Call number: DS371.3 .A385 2002
Video:
Campaign Against Terror. Dir. Mark Anderson and Greg Barker. Originally broadcast on the television program Frontline on Sept. 8, 2002. PBS Video, 2002. Video cassette 11255 Supplemental materials available via the Internet: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/
