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Title Afghanistan : transition under threat / Geoffrey Hayes and Mark Sedra, editors
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 309 pages)
Series Studies in International Governance
Contents Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Abbreviations; Section I: The Political Transition; Section Ii: The Economic Transition; Section Iii: The Security Transition; Section Iv: The Canadian Case; Contributors; Index
Summary Many have questioned the wisdom of the international intervention in Afghanistan in light of the escalation of violence and instability in the country in the past few years. Particularly uncertain are Canadians, who have been inundated with media coverage of an increasingly dirty war in southern Afghanistan, one in which Canadians are at the frontline and suffering heavy casualties. However, the conflict is only one aspect of Afghanistan's complicated, and incomplete, political, economic, and security transition. In Afghanistan: Transition under Threat, leading Afghanistan scholars and prac
Notes " ... This volume is a collection of essays first presented as a workshop held in Waterloo, Canada in December 2006."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Economic history
Military policy
Politics and government
SUBJECT Canada -- Military policy
Afghanistan -- History, Military -- 21st century
Afghanistan -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-2021
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-2021
Subject Afghanistan
Canada
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
Author Sedra, Mark
Hayes, Geoffrey, 1961-
ISBN 9781554580965
155458096X
1554586984
9781554586981
1282166859
9781282166851
9786613809926
6613809926