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Local Politics in Afghanistan: A Century of Intervention in the Social Order
Schetter
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Description for Local Politics in Afghanistan: A Century of Intervention in the Social Order
Hardback. 'All politics is local politics' is an adage which is perhaps more relevant in Afghanistan than many other countries and accounts for the failure of its overcentralised state Editor(s): Schetter, Conrad. Num Pages: 362 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Afghanistan's people have contended with an almost continuous series of foreign interventions in their local affairs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not only have external powers such as British India, the Soviet Un- ion, Pakistan and NATO meddled egregiously in local affairs, but so have Afghan governments, including monarchical, Communist, Islamist and ostensibly democratic ones. While the robust resilience of the Afghan population in the face of external influence is widely recognised, how the local populations have concretely dealt with these interventions and how local politics is structured in Afghanistan still remain somewhat open questions. This volume sheds light ... Read more
Afghanistan's people have contended with an almost continuous series of foreign interventions in their local affairs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not only have external powers such as British India, the Soviet Un- ion, Pakistan and NATO meddled egregiously in local affairs, but so have Afghan governments, including monarchical, Communist, Islamist and ostensibly democratic ones. While the robust resilience of the Afghan population in the face of external influence is widely recognised, how the local populations have concretely dealt with these interventions and how local politics is structured in Afghanistan still remain somewhat open questions. This volume sheds light ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
362
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849042635
SKU
V9781849042635
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99-5
About Schetter
Conrad Schetter is Research Fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn. He is also coordinator of the "Crossroads Asia. Conflict, Migration, Development" research network. His publications focus on local structures of power and violence, the politics of intervention, as well as collective identities. His main regional focus is Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia.
Reviews for Local Politics in Afghanistan: A Century of Intervention in the Social Order
'Local Politics in Afghanistan should do for the micro-study of Afghanistan what Decoding the New Taliban did for Taliban studies. Schetter's edited volume is an engaging set of essays on the dynamics of the local level of activity and how this intersects with other agendas - - whether imposed from outside by foreigners/internationals or from the Afghan government itself.'
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