The search for peace in Afghanistan : from buffer state to failed state /
Afghanistan's fourteen-year-long civil war erupted in 1978 and ended in the disintegration of a state that was first hyperarmed by the superpowers and then abandoned by them. This book analyzes the part played by international politics in this debacle, discussing how changing patterns of strate...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1995]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. From Buffer State to Regional Conflict. 1. The Failure of International Conflict Resolution. 2. The International System, State Formation, and Political Conflict
- pt. 2. Negotiating the Geneva Accords. 3. Structures of War and Negotiation: Aftermath of the Soviet Intervention. 4. International Conflict and Cooperation: A Game Theoretical Model. 5. Progress and Stalemate: The Geneva Talks and the Soviet Succession Crisis. 6. New Thinking and the Geneva Accords
- pt. 3. Afghanistan After the Cold War: From Regional Conflict to Failed State. 7. Cooperation Between the Superpowers. 8. Decline of Hegemonic Control. 9. From Conflict Resolution to State Disintegration
- Appendix A. Financing of Government Expenditure, 1952-88
- Appendix B. Political Actors in Afghanistan, 1973-95.