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edited by Giustozzi, Antonio

Decoding the new Taliban: insights from the Afghan field / edited by Antonio Giustozzi - London: Hurst, c2009. - xiii, 318 p.: ill., maps; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Antonio Giustozzi
1. The Taliban and the Opium Trade Gretchen S. Peters
2. Reading the Taliban Joanna Nathan
3. The Resurgence of the Taliban in Kabul: Logar and Wardak Mohammad’Osman Tariq Elias
4. Loya Paktia’s Insurgency
(i) The Haqqani Network as an Autonomous Entity Thomas Ruttig
(ii) Roots of the insurgency in the Southeast Sebastien Trives
5. The Return of the Taliban in Andar District: Ghazni
Christoph Renter and Borhan Younus
6. The Taliban in Helniand:An Oral History Tom Coghlan
7. Unruly Commanders andViolent Power Struggles:Taliban
Networks in Uruzgan Martine van Bijlert
8. Taliban in Zabul: A Witness’Account Abdul Awwal Zabulwal
9. What Kandahar’s Taliban Say Graeme Smith
10. The Taliban’s Marches: Herat, Farah, Baghdis and Ghor
Antonio Giustozzi
11. Taliban and Counter-Insurgency in Kunar David Kilcullen
12. Northern Exposure for the Taliban Sippi Azerbaijani Moghaddam
13. The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan Claudio Franco

ISBN: 1850659613 9781850659617

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Insurgency--History--Afghanistan

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Afghanistan--Politics and government

Dewey Class. No.: 958.1 / GIU/D