Descent into Chaos
by Rashid, AhmedEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-04-07
Publisher(s): Penguin Group USA
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Summary
After September 11th, Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced us to that now notorious regime. In his new work, "Pakistan's best and bravest reporter" (Christopher Hitchens) examines Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia as well as the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building has progressed. His conclusions are devastating: an unstable and nucleararmed Pakistan, a renewed Al Qaeda, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. As he predicted, Pakistan and Afghanistan are now where the real war is. His blistering critique of American policy is a dire warning and an impassioned call to correct our failed strategies. There is no more urgent global task. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Maps | |
| Countries and Cities of Central Asia | p. xvi-xvii |
| Ethnic Distribution Within Pakistan and Afghanistan | p. xviii |
| Afghan Provinces and Federally Administered Tribal Areas | p. xix |
| NATO Deployment and Provincial Reconstruction Team Locations in Afghanistan, 2007 | p. xx |
| Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan, 2007 | p. xxi |
| Military Offensives Launched by the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 2007-2008 | p. xxii |
| Glossary | p. xxiii |
| Acronyms | p. xxxv |
| Introduction Imperial Overreach and Nation Building | p. xxxvii |
| 9/11 And War | |
| A Man With A Mission The Unending Conflict in Afghanistan | p. 3 |
| "The U.S. Will Act Like A Wounded Bear" Pakistan's Long Search for Its Soul | p. 24 |
| The Chief Executive's Schizophrenia Pakistan, the United Nations, and the United States Before 9/11 | p. 44 |
| Attack! Retaliation and Invasion | p. 61 |
| The Search For A Settlement Afghanistan and Pakistan at Odds | p. 84 |
| The Politics Of The Post-9/11 World | |
| A Nuclear State Of Mind India, Pakistan, and the War Of Permanent Instability | p. 109 |
| The One-Billion-Dollar Warlords The War Within Afghanistan | p. 125 |
| Musharraf's Lost Moment Political Expediency and Authoritarian Rule | p. 145 |
| The Failure Of Nation Building | |
| Afghanistan I Economic Reconstruction | p. 171 |
| Afghanistan II Rebuilding Security | p. 196 |
| Double-Dealing With Islamic Extremism Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan | p. 219 |
| Taliban Resurgent The Taliban Return Home | p. 240 |
| Descent Into Chaos | |
| Al Qaeda's Bolt-Hole Pakistan's Tribal Areas | p. 265 |
| America Shows The Way The Disappeared and the Rendered | p. 293 |
| Drugs And Thugs Opium Fuels the Insurgency | p. 317 |
| Who Lost Uzbekistan? Tyranny in Central Asia | p. 338 |
| The Taliban Offensive Battling for Control of Afghanistan, 2006-2007 | p. 349 |
| The Death Of Anicon Pakistan Struggles to Survive | p. 374 |
| Conclusion A Fragile Future | p. 402 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 419 |
| Notes | p. 421 |
| Suggested Reading | p. 471 |
| Index | p. 477 |
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