Robert Rakove

Days of Opportunity

The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the 1979 Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences.

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Produktdetails

• Global America
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780231210454
• ISBN-10: 0231210450
• Artikelnr.: 67437118

Autorenporträt

Robert B. Rakove is a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes for the Reader
Introduction: "A Day of Opportunity"
1. A Game of Hide-and-Seek: The Afghan Pursuit of Diplomatic Relations,
1921-1938
2. "We Have a Rare Opportunity": U.S.-Afghan Relations Amid the World
Crisis, 1938-1945
3. Preeminence and Peril: The American Influx and the Coming of the Afghan
Cold War, 1945-1952
4. "We Might Be Willing to Take a Chance": The Choice to Contest
Afghanistan, 1953-1956
5. Anxious Coexistence: The Aid Contest, 1956-1959
6. The Crisis Era, 1959-1963
7. Reform and Retrenchment, 1963-1968
8. The Fall of the Monarchy, 1968-1973
9. Return to Engagement, 1973-1976
10. The End of Diplomacy, 1977-1979
Conclusion: "Into the Jaws of Catastrophe"
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
List of Archives
Index