Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present

Gilles Dorronsoro

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February, 2005
Cloth, 385 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13626-6
$35.00

Foreword

Chronology

Glossary

Introduction

PART ONE. THE ORIGINS OF THE AFGHAN REVOLUTION

1. The Sociogenesis of the Afghan State

2. From Mobilisation to Revolution

PART TWO. MOBILISATIONS

3. The Commanders

4. The Jihadi Parties

PART THREE. THE DYNAMICS OF CONFRONTATION

5. The Kabul Regime

6. The Guerillas

PART FOUR. THE TALIBAN

7. Competition and the Impetus towards Monopoly (1992-2001)

8. The Ethnicisation of the Conflict

9. The Clerical State

PART FIVE. THE AMERICAN INVASION AND THE RETURN OF FRAGMENTATION

10. A Splendid Little War?

11. the Return to Political Fragmentation

12. The Policy of Pakistan

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• History
• Middle East Studies
• Military History

Series

• CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies

About the Author

Gilles Dorronsoro is professor of political science, Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). He has written extensively on Afghan and Central Asian politics and is a member of the editorial committees of Cultures and Conflicts and Central Asian Literature.

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