Humanitarian invasion : global development in Cold War Afghanistan
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Humanitarian invasion : global development in Cold War Afghanistan
（Global and international history）
Cambridge University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-316) and index
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Description
Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, Timothy Nunan forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the front lines of the Cold War. Nunan argues that Afghanistan functioned as a laboratory for the future of the Third World nation-state. If, in the 1960s, Soviets, Americans, and Germans sought to make a territorial national economy for Afghanistan, later, under military occupation, Soviet nation-builders, French and Swedish humanitarians, and Pakistani-supported guerrillas fought a transnational civil war over Afghan statehood. Covering the entire period from the Cold War to Taliban rule, Humanitarian Invasion signals the beginning of a new stage in the writing of international history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. How to write the history of Afghanistan
- 2. Afghanistan's developmental moment?
- 3. States of exception, states of humanity
- 4. From Pashtunwali to communism?
- 5. Under a red veil
- 6. Borderscapes of denial
- 7. The little platoons of humanity
- 8. Conclusion.
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