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Truth and Power

Antonio Giustozzi, (London: C. Hurst, 2009). Pp. vii + 332. No price given (hbk); ISBN 978‐1‐85065‐932‐7. Dr Giustozzi’s name will already be familiar to any scholar or student familiar with the tr...

Empires of Mud. Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan

Ultime volume d’une serie qui se veut couvrir l’entiere histoire de l’Asie centrale, de l’Antiquite a nos jours, cet epais ouvrage possede les qualites et les defauts du genre. Ainsi il n’est pas certain que des chapitres consacres a l’Iran, au Pakistan et a l’Inde (ch. 4, 8, 17, 18, 20, 22/3, 27/2) soient pertinents. Davantage l’auraient ete des developpements sur le Xinjiang qui n’est traite (superficiellement) que dans les chapitres 16 et 26/1-2. D’autre part, la litterature, qui fait l’ob...

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History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Volume VI : Towards the contemporary period: from the mid-nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, 2005, 1033 p.

Drugs in Afghanistan: Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales

(1982). The government of Muhammad Moussa Shafiq: The last chapter of Afghan Liberalism. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 53-64.

The government of Muhammad Moussa Shafiq: The last chapter of Afghan Liberalism

Using the Wikileaks PlusD Archive of US State Department cables from Kabul in 1973, this thesis presents an analysis of the politics of the Helmand Water Treaty between Afghanistan and Iran and the role of the US in Afghanistan's politics at the time. The analysis of the cables shows: a) that US policy was directed towards the promotion of neoliberalism in Afghanistan; b) that Afghanistan in 1973 was the site of a largely neglected struggle for democracy, and c) that the US, as well as the Afghan establishment, worked together to suppress this democratic struggle. These broader political dynamics are illustrated through a focus on the Helmand Water Treaty as discussed in the cables.

Khalida Ramyar

Papers

Afghanistan Before the Invasions: The Subversion of Democracy in 1973