Missionaries of Modernity - Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony in Afghanistan and Beyond

Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and economies overseas and this book tells this story, from the late nineteenth century to the present

Info autore

Antonio Giustozzi is a Research Fellow at IDEAS, London School of Economics. He is the author of Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007 and Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan, both available from OUP. Artemy Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor of East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Antonio Giustozzi, Dr. Antonio Giustozzi, Giustozzi Antonio, Artemy Kalinovsky, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Kalinovsky Artemy M.
• Editore: Hurst Publishers
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.03.2016
• EAN: 9781849044806
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-480-6
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
• Peso: 748 g
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Afghanistan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100