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An outstanding and important collection-just the sort of locally specific, openly debatable, scholarly analysis...that will be required more and more if the international community is ever to understand the insurgents....As up-to-date as scholarship can be. --Pullitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll in The New Yorker Far removed from the usual cliches and hasty generalisations, Decoding the New Taliban offers the reader a keen, first-hand sense of field research in Afghanistan, with all its uncertainties and contradictions. the authors, working on different regions or themes, offer new data andthought-provoking analyses. this book is an important step in understanding our failure in the current war. --Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan 1979 to the Present Giustozzi has succeeded in drawing together an excellent collection of perceptive essays from eminent and distinguished contributors. The focus on developments in diverse Afghan localities ensures that there is much in the volume that is novel, and instructive for both specialist and general readers. --Professor William Maley, author of Rescuing Afghanistan

An outstanding and important collection-just the sort of locally specific, openly debatable, scholarly analysis...that will be required more and more if the international community is ever to understand the insurgents....As up-to-date as scholarship can be.--Pullitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll in The New Yorker Far removed from the usual cliches and hasty generalisations, Decoding the New Taliban offers the reader a keen, first-hand sense of field research in Afghanistan, with all its uncertainties and contradictions. the authors, working on different regions or themes, offer new data andthought-provoking analyses. this book is an important step in understanding our failure in the current war.--Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan 1979 to the Present Giustozzi has succeeded in drawing together an excellent collection of perceptive essays from eminent and distinguished contributors. The focus on developments in diverse Afghan localities ensures that there is much in the volume that is novel, and instructive for both specialist and general readers.--Professor William Maley, author of Rescuing Afghanistan

<br> An outstanding and important collection-just the sort of locally specific, openly debatable, scholarly analysis...that will be required more and more if the international community is ever to understand the insurgents....As up-to-date as scholarship can be. --Pullitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll in The New Yorker<p><br> Far removed from the usual cliches and hasty generalisations, Decoding the New Taliban offers the reader a keen, first-hand sense of field research in Afghanistan, with all its uncertainties and contradictions. the authors, working on different regions or themes, offer new data andthought-provoking analyses. this book is an important step in understanding our failure in the current war. --Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan 1979 to the Present<p><br> Giustozzi has succeeded in drawing together an excellent collection of perceptive essays from eminent and distinguished contributors. The focus on developments in diverse Afghan localities ensures that there is much in the volume that is novel, and instructive for both specialist and general readers. --Professor William Maley, author of Rescuing Afghanistan<p><br>

An outstanding and important collection-just the sort of locally specific, openly debatable, scholarly analysis...that will be required more and more if the international community is ever to understand the insurgents....As up-to-date as scholarship can be. --Pullitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll in The New Yorker Far removed from the usual cliches and hasty generalisations, Decoding the New Taliban offers the reader a keen, first-hand sense of field research in Afghanistan, with all its uncertainties and contradictions. the authors, working on different regions or themes, offer new data andthought-provoking analyses. this book is an important step in understanding our failure in the current war. --Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan 1979 to the Present Giustozzi has succeeded in drawing together an excellent collection of perceptive essays from eminent and distinguished contributors. The focus on developments in diverse Afghan localities ensures that there is much in the volume that is novel, and instructive for both specialist and general readers. --Professor William Maley, author of Rescuing Afghanistan

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Antonio Giustozzi is a Research Fellow at IDEAS, London School of Economics.

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