The Taliban and the Crisis of AfghanistanRobert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi The Taliban remain one of the most elusive forces in modern history. A ragtag collection of clerics and madrasa students, this obscure movement emerged out of the rubble of the Cold War to shock the world with their draconian Islamic order. The Taliban refused to surrender their vision even when confronted by the United States after September 11, 2001. Reinventing themselves as part of a broad insurgency that destabilized Afghanistan, they pledged to drive out the Americans, NATO, and their allies and restore their "Islamic Emirate." |
Contents
Explaining the Talibans Ability to Mobilize the Pashtuns | 57 |
The Rise and Fall of the Taliban | 88 |
The Taliban Women and the Hegelian Private Sphere | 116 |
Taliban and Talibanism in Historical Perspective | 153 |
Remembering the Taliban | 180 |
Fraternity Power and Time in Central Asia | 210 |
Moderate Taliban? | 236 |
The NeoTaliban | 272 |
Afghanistan and the Pax Americana | 309 |
NOTES | 357 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 417 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 419 |
INDEX | 421 |