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Decoding the new Taliban : insights from the Afghan field / editor, Antonio Giustozzi. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2009. - xiii, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Taliban and the opium trade / Gretchen S. Peters -- Reading the Taliban / Joanna Nathan -- The resurgence of the Taliban in Kabul: Logar and Wardak / Mohammad Osman Tariq Elias -- Loya Paktia's insurgency / Thomas Ruttig and Sébastien Trives -- The return of the Taliban in Andar district: Ghazni / Christoph Reuter and Borhan Younus -- The Taliban in Helmand: an oral history / Tom Coghlan -- Unruly commanders and violent power struggles: Taliban networks in Uruzgan / Martine van Bijlert -- Taliban in Zabul: a witness' account / Abdul Awwal Zabulwal -- What Kandahar's Taliban say / Graeme Smith -- The Taliban's marches: Herat, Farah, Baghdis and Ghor / Antonio Giustozzi -- Taliban and counter-insurgency in Kunar / David Kilcullen -- Northern exposure for the Taliban / Sippi Azerbaijani Moghaddam -- The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan / Claudio Franco.

ISBN: 9780231701129 0231701128 9781850659617

LCCN: 2009015843

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Taliban.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Insurgency--History--Afghanistan--21st century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Afghanistan--Politics and government--2001-

LC Class. No.: DS371.4 / .D43 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 958.1047 / DEC