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Missionaries of Modernity
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Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony in Afghanistan and Beyond
Besorgungstitel - wird vorgemerkt | Lieferzeit: Besorgungstitel - Lieferbar innerhalb von 10 Werktagen I
Artikel-Nr:
9781849044806
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.04.2016
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Antonio Giustozzi
Gewicht:
768 g
Format:
218x148x39 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Antonio Giustozzi is a Research Fellow at IDEAS, London School of Economics. He is the author of Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007 and Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan, both available from OUP. Artemy Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor of East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2011).
Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and economies overseas and this book tells this story, from the late nineteenth century to the present