Descent into chaos: the United States and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia /
Ahmed Rashid
- New York: Viking, 2008.
- lviii, 484 p.: ill., maps; 25 cm.
Includes bibliography and index.
Countries and Cities of Central Asia -- Ethnic Distribution Within Pakistan and Afghanistan -- Afghan Provinces and Federally Administered Tribal Areas -- NATO Deployment and Provincial Reconstruction Team Locations in Afghanistan, 2007 -- Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan, 2007 -- Military Offensives Launched by the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 2007-2008 -- Introduction: Imperial Overreach and Nation Building -- 9/11 and War -- A Man With a Mission: The Unending Conflict in Afghanistan -- "The U.S. Will Act Like a Wounded Bear": Pakistan's Long Search for Its Soul -- The Chief Executive's Schizophrenia: Pakistan, the United Nations, and the United States Before 9/11 -- Attack!: Retaliation and Invasion -- The Search for a Settlement: Afghanistan and Pakistan at Odds -- The Politics of the Post-9/11 World -- A Nuclear State of Mind: India, Pakistan, and the War of Permanent Instability -- The One-Billion-Dollar Warlords: The War Within Afghanistan -- Musharraf's Lost Moment: Political Expediency and Authoritarian Rule -- The Failure of Nation Building -- Afghanistan I: Economic Reconstruction -- Afghanistan II: Rebuilding Security -- Double-Dealing with Islamic Extremism: Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan -- Taliban Resurgent: The Taliban Return Home -- Descent Into Chaos -- Al Qaeda's Bolt-Hole: Pakistan's Tribal Areas -- America Shows the Way: The Disappeared and the Rendered -- Drugs and Thugs: Opium Fuels the Insurgency -- Who Lost Uzbekistan?: Tyranny in Central Asia -- The Taliban Offensive: Battling for Control of Afghanistan, 2006-2007 -- Conclusion: The Death of an Icon and a Fragile Future. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part 2. 6. 7. 8. Part 3. 9. 10. 11. 12. Part 4. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.