Title: War without winners
First published: 1994
Description: The situation created by Soviet intervention in Afghanistan attracted scholarly attention worldwide. But though much was written on Afghanistan, little effort was made to understand the domestic roots of the confrontation, nor was any effort made to explain the linkage between internal strife and external invasion.

In this first work of its kind Dr Rasul Bakhsh Rais analyses all the factors that led to the Afghan tragedy. He examines the nature of the Afghan state and society, the dynamics of the regional and global power structure, the externalization of the civil strife and the resultant fragmentation of political power, thereby adding a fresh perspective to the debate on the politics and security of Afghanistan.
Subjects: Politics and government, History, Engineering, Politischer Wandel, Binnenlandse politiek, Geschichte 1978-1993, Geschichte 1964-1992
Places: Afghanistan
Time periods: 1973-, Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
LC classification: DS371.2 .R35 1994