| Description |
1 online resource (41 pages) : illustrations, map, color portraits |
| Series |
Afghanistan report ; 10 |
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Afghanistan report ; 10
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| Contents |
Executive summary. -- Introduction. -- Jamiat from 1979-2001. -- Factional splintering during & after the Soviet war. -- From ideological origins to a cadre of personalities. -- From the fall of the Taliban to the 2009 election. -- From Rabbani's assassination to the 2014 election. -- Atta Mohammad Noor: from provincial strongman to presidential candidate? -- Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim: Jamiat's kingpin. -- Whither Jamiat in 2014? -- Conclusion. -- Notes |
| Summary |
The Doha talks with the Taliban have diverted Washington's efforts away from the far more important negotiations among Afghanistan's political elite that will actually determine whether the country's unity and constitutional system endures past 2014. Afghanistan's history suggests that any successful political accommodation of its different ethnic factions in 2014 will be impossible without incorporating the interests of those influential leaders and commanders currently or formerly associated with Jamiat-e Islami. Jamiat remains one of Afghanistan's oldest and most influential Tajik-dominated political parties, forged as a political-military organization that eventually formed the core of the Northern Alliance against the Taliban. As negotiations with the Taliban proceed in fits and starts, U.S. policymakers would do well to remember that such negotiations hold very little appeal for the influential politicians affiliated in one form or another with Jamiat |
| Notes |
"August 2013." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-41) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ISW, viewed August 10, 2013) |
| Subject |
Politicians -- Afghanistan -- Biography
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Political stability -- Afghanistan
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Politics and government
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Political stability.
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Politicians.
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| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- History
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| Subject |
Afghanistan.
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Institute for the Study of War (Washington, D.C.)
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