Humanitarian Invasion - Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan

Informationen zum Autor Timothy Nunan is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Zentralasien-Seminar of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Klappentext Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan. Zusammenfassung This book is a global history of development and humanitarianism in Afghanistan during the Cold War. Relying on sources from Soviet! Western! and NGO archives! as well as original interviews! it will engage readers interested in Soviet and Russian history! Afghan history! and the history of international development and NGOs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Nunan, Timothy (Harvard University Nunan, Nunan Timothy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781107530973
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53097-3
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Global and International History; Global and International Histo; Global and International History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Afghanistan, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Human rights, civil rights, Development Studies, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General