0
17 years of experience17 years of Excellence
SUBJECTS
ADV. SEARCH
Indian Books on Discounts
  Empires of Mud - Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan
 

Empires Of Mud - Wars And Warlords In Afghanistan

by Antonio Giustozzi

  Price : Rs 795.00
  Your Price : Rs 651.90
Discount
18
Out of Stock
  Warlords, namely charismatic military leaders who exploit the weakness of central authorities to seize control of and autonomously rule a sub-national area, have earned much notoriety in recent years on account of the excesses of civil wars in Liberia, Somalia and Afghanistan. But notwithstanding their bad reputation, warlords have often participated in state formation. In Empires of Mud Giustozzi analyses the dynamics of warlordism in Afghanistan within the context of such debates. He approaches this complex task by first analysing aspects of the Afghan environment that might have been conductive to the fragmentation of central authority and the emergence of warlords and then accounts for the emergence of warlordism in the 1980s and subsequently the lion`s share of this book consists of an in-depth analysis of the systems of rule - political, economic, military - which developed under Afghanistan`s two foremost warlords, Ismail Khan and Abdul Rashid Dostum, both of whom still wield considerable power even after the intervention of Allied forces in Afghanistan in 2001. Their two systems are compared, highlighting convergences and divergences, in order to explain how warlords administer the areas that they control within so-called `failed states`, in the process challenging much of the received wisdom in scholarly and policy circles about warlordism. The author also discusses Ahmad Shah Massoud, whose `system` incorporated elements of rule not dissimilar from that of the warlords.

ISBN - 9781850659327
 


Pages : 342
Credit Cards
Payment accepted by All Major Credit and Debit Cards, Net Banking, Cash Cards, Paytm, UPI, Paypal. Our payment gateways are 100% secure.
Check Delivery
Books by Same Author
Koran, Kalashnikov And Laptop
by Antonio Giustozzi
18%
Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop - The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Hurst)
by Antonio Giustozzi
18%
Empires of Mud - Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan
by Antonio Giustozzi
18%
Decoding the New Taliban - Insights from the Afghan Field
by Antonio Giustozzi (Ed.)
Books of Similar Interest
22%
Security, Episonage And Counter Intelligence
by R. N. Manickam
A Slice Of History
by L. M. Bhatia
22%
Indian Land Forces: Structural Imperatives
by Brig. Jaspal Singh
An Infantry Battalion in Combat: A Critical Appraisal of Battle Situations Encountered by an Infantry Battalion
by Lt Col (Dr) Sube Singh Ahlawat
22%
Fourth Generation War: paradigm for Change
by Col. GS Katoch
Best Book Mart
Support

Call Us Phone : +91-9266663909
Email Us Email : support [at] bestbookmart.com
Working Hours Timing : 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (Mon-Fri)
Powered By
CCAvenue
SSL Protection