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OverviewAfghanistan has been a theatre of civil and international conflict for much of the twentieth century – stability is essential if there is to be peace in the Greater Middle East. Yet policy-makers in the West often seem to forget the lessons learned from previous administrations, whose interventions have contributed to the instability in the region. Here, Sharifullah Dorani focuses on the process of decision-making, looking at which factors influenced American policy-makers in the build-up to its longest war, the Afghanistan War, and how reactions on the ground in Afghanistan have influenced events since then. America in Afghanistan is a new, full history of US foreign policy toward Afghanistan from Bush’s ‘War on Terror’, to Obama’s war of ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ to Trump’s war against ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’. Dorani is fluent in Pashto and Dari and uses unique and unseen Afghan source-work, published here for the first time, to understand the people in Afghanistan itself, and to answer their unanswered questions about ‘real’ US Afghan goals, the reasons for US failures in Afghanistan, especially its inability to improve governance and stop Pakistan, Iran and Russia from supporting the insurgency in Afghanistan, and the reasons for the bewildering changes in US Afghan policy over the course of 16 and a half years. To that end the author also assesses Presidents Karzai and Ghani’s responses to Bush, Obama and Trump’s policies in Afghanistan and the region. In addition, the book covers the role Afghanistan’s neighbours – Russia, Iran, India, and especially Pakistan – played in America’s Afghanistan War. This will be an essential book for those interested in the future of the region, and those who seek to understand its recent past. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sharifullah DoraniPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: I.B. Tauris Weight: 0.498kg ISBN: 9781784539986ISBN 10: 1784539988 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 24 January 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. BUSH'S 'GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR' IN AFGHANISTAN, 2001-2008 1. The Intervention Decision at the Initiation Stage 2. The Intervention and Counterterrorism Decisions at the Formulation Stage, September 2001-February 2002 3. An Insider's Insight into Bush's War Cabinet 4. The Counterterrorism Strategy at the Implementation Stage, 2002-2008 5. The Counterterrorism Strategy at the Evaluation Stage and Bush's Tilt towards a Counter-insurgency Strategy, 2007-2008 Part 2. OBAMA'S WAR OF 'COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM' IN AFGHANISTAN, 2009-2017 6. The Surge Decision at the Initiation Phase 7. An Insider's Insight into Obama's War Cabinet 8. The Surge Decision at the Formulation Phase, September-December 2009 9. The Surge Decision at the Implementation Phase, January 2010-June 2011 10. The Surge Decision at the Evaluation Phase and Obama's Formulation of the Withdrawal Decision, June 2011 11. The Withdrawal Strategy at the Implementation Phase and Obama's Final Policy Alterations, July 2011-December 2016 Part 3. TRUMP'S WAR AGAINST 'RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM' IN AFGHANISTAN, 2016-2018 12. An Insider's Insight into President Trump and his Administration 13. Trump's South Asia Strategy in Afghanistan at the Initiation, Formulation and Implementation Phases, 2016-2018 Conclusion Bibliography Notes IndexReviewsThe new book by Dr. Sharifullah Dorani ... is not just another story of Afghanistan's troubled past, but rather is a remarkable account of the country's modern history with details, facts and figures that presents in its entirety the reasons that made Afghanistan, in spite of its ancient and rich civilization, renowned globally for all the wrong reasons. * U.S. Studies Online * The new book by Dr. Sharifullah Dorani ... is not just another story of Afghanistan's troubled past, but rather is a remarkable account of the country's modern history with details, facts and figures that presents in its entirety the reasons that made Afghanistan, in spite of its ancient and rich civilization, renowned globally for all the wrong reasons. * U.S. Studies Online * A valuable contribution to understanding the complex motivations, causes and consequences of US policy towards Afghanistan and the internal disagreements between the actors. * LSE US Centre * His is the art of synthesis: of letting the known, verifiable facts speak for themselves ... America in Afghanistan documents forensically how the incapacity or unwillingness of the powerful to imagine the conditions of the conquered can prove devastating to the imbalances of geopolitical power ... The book is most powerful precisely when the anthropological distance is set aside and Dorani allows everyday Afghans to speak ... Their voice gives the book a human scale. * Charged Affairs * The fact that Dorani spoke to Afghans from 'all walks of life' in researching the book is a strength that yields many of his most cutting insights...Dorani's Afghan perspective is truly invaluable. Americans and Westerners should pay attention. * The Strategy Bridge, Carter Malkasian * The new book by Dr. Sharifullah Dorani ... is not just another story of Afghanistan's troubled past, but rather is a remarkable account of the country's modern history with details, facts and figures that presents in its entirety the reasons that made Afghanistan, in spite of its ancient and rich civilization, renowned globally for all the wrong reasons. * U.S. Studies Online * A valuable contribution to understanding the complex motivations, causes and consequences of US policy towards Afghanistan and the internal disagreements between the actors. * LSE US Centre * His is the art of synthesis: of letting the known, verifiable facts speak for themselves ... America in Afghanistan documents forensically how the incapacity or unwillingness of the powerful to imagine the conditions of the conquered can prove devastating to the imbalances of geopolitical power ... The book is most powerful precisely when the anthropological distance is set aside and Dorani allows everyday Afghans to speak ... Their voice gives the book a human scale. * Charged Affairs * The fact that Dorani spoke to Afghans from 'all walks of life' in researching the book is a strength that yields many of his most cutting insights...Dorani's Afghan perspective is truly invaluable. Americans and Westerners should pay attention. * The Strategy Bridge, Carter Malkasian * The new book by Dr. Sharifullah Dorani ... is not just another story of Afghanistan's troubled past, but rather is a remarkable account of the country's modern history with details, facts and figures that presents in its entirety the reasons that made Afghanistan, in spite of its ancient and rich civilization, renowned globally for all the wrong reasons. * U.S. Studies Online * A valuable contribution to understanding the complex motivations, causes and consequences of US policy towards Afghanistan and the internal disagreements between the actors. * LSE US Centre * The book is extremely valuable in terms of understanding decision making towards Afghanistan ... crucial to courses relating to Foreign Policy Analysis, especially those on the Foreign Decision Making Models. * CESRAN * Author InformationAfshan Dorani completed his PhD on the War in Afghanistan at Durham University. He has lived and worked in Afghanistan and lectures on the history of US policy in the region. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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