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This book examines how dependent development and struggles for power within and outside the state apparatus led to formation of alliances with imperial powers and how the latter used these alliances to manipulate political development in Afghanistan to their own advantage.

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Reform and Rebellion in Post-Independence Dawn of Political Liberalization Military Putsch and Regime Change State, Imperialism and Dissident Movements Mujahidin, Civil War, and the Taliban Post-Taliban Politics of Reconstruction

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"This is a book to inform the world of the internal dynamics of a nascent nation statein a remote part of the world that is strategically important to superpowers. This is the first insider s view of Afghanistan by an indigenous journalist-scholar who looks at the top from the bottom. There is a definite need for a book of this kind." - Yasumasa Kuroda, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai i

"Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." - CHOICE: N. Entessar, University of South Alabama

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HAFIZULLAH EMADI is Director of the Board of Directors for the First Micro-Finance Bank Ltd, Afghanistan.

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