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ISBN: Y3897
Publisher: PROGRESSIVE PUBLISHERS
Subtitle: VOL 1
Author: AYAZ NASEEM
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| ISBN | Y3897 |
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| Publication Date | 1989 |
| Pages | 239 |
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Conflict in Afghanistan provides a timely discussion of the concept of asymmetric warfare which has become one of the main issues of the day in the wake of the attacks of 9/11 and the ensuing invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Broadly speaking this describes a means of fighting where comparatively weak belligerents have been able to exploit successfully the vulnerabilities of their more powerful and sophisticated opponents. Two recent examples have been the Vietnam and the Soviet-Afghan wars, but the historical roots of the concept lie deeper, particularly in Afghanistan.
Conflict in Afghanistan, laying emphasis on contemporary documents and drawing on material from Soviet archives, centres on wars conducted in Afghanistan which have been of the asymmetric variety.
Subjects examined include:
• Five wars conducted in Afghanistan by an extemal invader over the past two centuries
• The decisions and actions of politicians and the military involved in the wars in question
• The successes and failures of diplomatic endeavours during the wars
This book is essential reading for those who have research interests in Asian studies, military studies and current affairs.
ISBN: 0415341604
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: STUDIES IN ASYMMETRIC WARFARE
Author: MARTIN EWANS
ISBN: 0714655953
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle:
Author: ALEX J.BELLAMY
The guide and mentor to the Ottoman military was Imperial Germany as the military developed its version of the Prussian ‘School of Empire’ – a set of ideas and practices which in the eyes of the officer corps saw the military as the embodiment of the Ottoman Turkish nation state. The military had intervened decisively in the 1908 Constitutional Revolution and were vital in bringing the Ottoman Empire into World War I on the side of the Central Powers. Based on original Ottoman and German sources, The Birth of Modern Turkey shows how military thinking and policy contributed to the triumph of Ataturk and the founding of the modern Turkish state.
ISBN: 1850437971
Publisher: I.B. TAURIS
Subtitle: THE OTTOMAN MILITARY AND THE MARCH TO WORLD WAR 1
Author: HANDAN NEZIR-AKMESE
ISBN: 9780415547123
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle:
Author: AERON DAVIS
ISBN: 0262661810
Publisher: THE MIT PRESS
Subtitle:
Author: PAVEL PODVIG
Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. However, critics of these organisations have pointed out that NGOs tend to be undemocratic in their internal politics, they speak for groups of people to whom they are not accountable through elections or financial support and they often represent the interests of people in wealthy countries at the expense of truly indigenous people. The main questions revolve around whether and how NGOs actually lead to democratisation, and the ways in which NGOs relate to broader global forces.
In Civil Society, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has brought together an international group of experts on the subject whose chapters address these questions through a series of extensive case studies from east and southeast Asia including Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam.
ISBN: 0415343011
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: ORGANISING BETWEEN FAMILY AND STATE
Author: ROBERT P WELLER
What have been the experiences and lessons learned from reconstruction activities which have followed wars over the past ten years? With recent events both in Afghanistan and Iraq and frequent talk of on-going conflicts, this question preoccupies politicians, aid donors and the media as never before. “After the Conflict” draws together the main issues and arguments on the subject into a single volume emanating from the University of York’s Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU), renowned as the world’s leading research centre dedicated to the study of the aftermath of war. Examining case studies from war and post-war reconstruction scenarios around the world, this book sets out a philosophy of reconstruction that has emerged from extensive original research at PRDU. This has concluded that solutions to successful post-war reconstruction needs are to be found locally, within the communities affected by conflict and that therein lies the best hope of achieving lasting, sustainable outcomes.<
ISBN: 1850434638
Publisher: I.B.TAURIS
Subtitle: RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE AFTERMATH OF WAR
Author: SULTAN BARAKAT
ISBN: 0415348293
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: LESSONS FOR THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND BEYOND
Author: MICHAEL BONNER
