War Without Winners; Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition After the Cold War

Karachi: Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition [stated], Second Impression [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. xi, [1],286, [2] pages. Red ink underlining and comments noted. Frontis map. Preface, Introduction, Revolution, Reforms and Rebellion; The Soviet Intervention; Soviet-Afghan War, The Geneva Accords, The Marxist Regime: Dependent Survival and Collapse; The Afghan Resistance, Transition to Mujahideen Government, The Vortex of Regional Power Rivalry, and Conclusion. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. Dr. Rasul Bakhsh Rais is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS, Lahore since 2002. Dr. Rais has Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining LUMS, he remained associated with the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad for nearly 22 years as Professor/Director, Area Study Centre and prior to that as Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations. He was Quaid-i-Azam Distinguished Professor of Pakistan Studies at Columbia University, New York for 3 years, 1991-94. He is author of Recovering the Frontier State: War, Ethnicity and State in Afghanistan, War Without Winners: Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition after the Cold War, Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and Strategic Perspectives, editor of State, Society and Democratic Change in Pakistan and with Charles H. Kennedy, Pakistan 1995. He has published widely in professional journals on political and security issues pertaining to South Asia, Indian Ocean and Afghanistan. His current research interests are: Modernism, State and Challenge of Radical Islam in Pakistan. The situation created by Soviet intervention in Afghanistan attracted scholarly attention worldwide. But though much was written on Afghanistan, little effort was made to understand the domestic roots of the confrontation, nor was any effort made to explain the linkage between internal strife and external invasion. In this first work of its kind Dr. Rasul Bakhsh Rais analyses all the factors that led to the Afghan tragedy. He examines the nature of the Afghan state and society, the dynamics of the regional and global power structure, the externalization of the civil strife and the resultant fragmentation of political power, thereby adding a fresh perspective to the debate on the politics and security of Afghanistan.