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Traces in the Desert : Journeys of Discovery Across Central Asia
Christoph Baumer
Hardcover - $80.95
The Punishment of Virtue : Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
Sarah Chayes
Paperback - $26.95
From a beloved former NPR reporter comes a news-breaking eyewitness account of how the U.S. government and armed forces allowed, and even abetted, the tragic return to violent warlordism in Afghanistan following the defeat of the Taliban.
Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll
Paperback - $29.95
From the managing editor of "The Washington Post" comes this news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda.
Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll
Hardcover - $47.95
From Steve Coll, the managing editor of The Washington Post, comes this news-breaking account of the CIAUs involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Quaeda. This New York Times bestsel ...
Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia
Kathleen Collins
Hardcover - $210.95
Exploring the varied roots of clans, and their political role and transformation during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, this volume argues that clans are informal political actors critical to understanding regional politics. It demonstrates that ...
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
Robert D. Crews
Hardcover - $44.95
Offering an invaluable guide to "what went wrong" with the American reconstruction project in Afghanistan, this book accounts for the persistence of a powerful and enigmatic movement while simultaneously mapping Afghanistans enduring political crisis ...
After the Taliban : Nation-Building in Afghanistan
James Dobbins
Hardcover - $39.95
The first insider's account of the Bush administration's post???9/11 diplomacy
Tribal Nation : The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Paperback - $47.95
"This is a beautifully written, extremely well researched, and very well argued investigation of nation-making in Soviet Central Asia. Edgar's work goes much further than that of many of her contemporaries and moves in an important new direction. Rat ...
Opium Season : A Year on the Afghan Frontier
Joel Hafvenstein
Hardcover - $39.95
Joel Hafvenstein was hired for perhaps the most undesired job in the world today: join a team of contractors in Afghanistan’ s harsh and brutal Helmand Province seeking to convince local farmers to stop growing poppies, the source of opium. Hel ...