Abstract

The Taliban movement, depicted by Ahmed Rashid (The Taliban: Exporting Extremism, November/December 1999), has passed its high-water mark. It is now disintegrating, echoing the rapid rise and fall of similar religious movements in Afghan history. With the Taliban's demise, Afghanistan faces a new challenge: who will fill their place? As Rashid notes, the Taliban emerged in the mid-1990s, when their radical leader Muhammad Omar succeeded in

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