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This book explores the what, the why, and the how of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan almost 20 years after their removal from power. It examines how the U.S. discourses on War on Terror and state-building in Afghanistan have taken shape, became dominant over the past two decades, and to delineate their consequences. Also, it highlights how both discourses are representative of wider depoliticization of the society and eventually paved the way for the illiberal, oppressive politics of confinement and necropolitics.
The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, U.S. foreign policy, peace and conflict studies, area studies, especially West Asian and South Asian studies.
List of contents
Prelude: The Scene 1. Four Presidents, One Discourse 2. Post-2001 Afghanistan: from the Politics of Confinement to Necropolitics 3. The Taliban of the past and the present: Afghanistan under a new round of necroplitics 4. Epilogue
About the author
Pamir Halimzai Sahill is a researcher at the Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies in Prague. He obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations from the Prague University of Economics and Business (Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze). He specialises in International Security, Terrorism Studies, Theories of Globalization, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, State-building Theory and Practice, (Foucauldian) Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism and Developmentalism, the politics and security of Afghanistan, South Asia, and Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His articles have been published in journals such as Women’s Studies International Forum, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Insight Turkey, and Jan Masaryk Review of International Studies. He speaks English, Pashto, (Persian) Farsi, Urdu/Hindi, Punjabi, and Hindko.
Summary
This book explores the what, why and the how of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan almost 20 years after their removal from power.
