Recovering the Frontier State: War, Ethnicity, and the State in Afghanistan

by RasulB.Rais (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $51.10

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $112.80

  Explores how legacies of internal strife and foreign invasions have altered the balance of social and political forces that provided some measure of stability to Afghanistan. This book argues that Afghanistan needs positive international engagement to find a new balance among its fractious social groups and build effective state and nationhood.