The Search for Peace in Afghanistan 9780300146059

Afghanistan's fourteen-year-long civil war erupted in 1978 and ended in the disintegration of a state that was firs

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Map of Afghanistan
Part One. From Buffer State to Regional Conflict
1. The Failure of International Conflict Resolution
2. The International System, State Formation, and Political Conflict
Part Two. Negotiating the Geneva Accords
3. Structures of War and Negotiation: Aftermath of the Soviet Intervention
4. International Conflict and Cooperation: A Game Theoretical Model
5. Progress and Stalemate: The Geneva Talks and the Soviet Succession Crisis
6. New Thinking and the Geneva Accords
Part Three. Afghanistan After the Cold War: From Regional Conflict to Failed State
7. Cooperation Between the Superpowers
8. Decline of Hegemonic Control
9. From Conflict Resolution to State Disintegration
Appendix A: Financing of Government Expenditure, 1952–88
Appendix B: Political Actors in Afghanistan, 1973–95
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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THE SEARCH FOR PEACE IN AFGHANISTAN

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THE SEARCH FOR PEACE IN

AFGHANISTAN From Buffer State to Failed State

BARNETT R. RUBIN

Yale University Press New Haven and London

Copyright © 1995 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in pan, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Designed by Sally Harris/Summer Hill Books Set in Times Roman type by Keystone Typesetting, Inc., Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. Printed by BookCrafters, Inc., Chelsea, Michigan. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rubin, Barnett R. The search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state / Barnett R. Rubin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0^300-06376-8 i. Afghanistan—Politics and government—1973-1989. 2. Afghanistan—Politics and government — 1989- . I. Title. DS37I.2.R86 1995 958.i04'5-