War and State-Building in Afghanistan : Historical and Modern Perspectives

Abstract

Introduction Scott Gates (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Kaushik Roy (Jadavpur University, India) 1. The Unchanging Nature of Asymmetric Warfare Marianne Dahl (Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway), Havard Mokleiv Nygard (Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway), Scott Gates and Kaushik Roy 2. Great Mughals, Warfare and COIN in Afghanistan: 1520-1707 Kaushik Roy 3. Counter-Insurgency and Empire: The British Experience with Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier, 1838-1947 John Ferris (University of Calgary, Canada) 4. How Afghanistan Was Broken: The Disaster of the Soviet Intervention Pavel K. Baev (Centre for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway) 5. Mujahidin vs. Communists: Analysing the Mujahidin's war strategies after Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Anne Stenersen (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment) 6. Explaining NATO's limitations and the Taliban's Resilience Abdulkader H. Sinno (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) 7. Regional Dimensions Kristian Harpviken (Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway) 8. The Afghan National Army and Counter-Insurgency Robert Johnson (University of Oxford, UK) 9. The Country as a Hole: Imagined States and the Failure of Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan Ivan Arreguin-Toft (Boston University, USA) Index