Afghanistan Beyond the Fog of War: Persistent Failure of a Rentier State

by Michael Fredholm

Book Overview

This is the first book to scrutinize the root causes of problems today with Afghan reconstruction. It begins in 1880 with the coming to power of Emir Abdur Rahman and departure of an occupying British army. On the northern border, Russian forces were also poised. Determined to preserve Afghan independence, Abdur Rahman devised a nation-building project grounded on centralized, autocratic rule and based on security, modernization and economic reform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776942503
• ISBN13: 9788776942502
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.