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'In placing Afghanistan and Pakistan at the center of his foreign policy agenda, President Obama has taken a huge risk, not least because the Taliban insurgency is so little understood. In this respect, Decoding the New Taliban could not be more timely and important. Research in Afghanistan is precarious at best, life-threatening at worst, and we owe a debt of thanks to the contributors of this volume for providing invaluable insights from their first-hand exposure to contemporary Afghan social and political realities. Decoding the New Taliban is one of the only sources where one can find concrete, specific, and up-to-date information on the structure, strategy, and operations of the Taliban insurgents. Along with Giustozzi's earlier book, Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop, Decoding the New Taliban is essential reading for anyone interested in the challenges facing the United States in bringing stability to this crucial region of the world.' ----Professor David B. Edwards, Willliams College, author Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad
'Antonio Giustozzi, a fellow at the London School of Economics, is the editor of a new volume of research essays about the Taliban entitled Decoding the New Taliban. It is an outstanding and important collection just the sort of locally specific, openly debatable, scholarly analysis about the diverse structures and leaders of the Taliban that will be required more and more if the international community is ever to understand the insurgents and divine how to prevent a second Taliban revolution.' --Steve Coll, New Yorker, November 2009
'Far removed from the usual cliches and hasty generalisations, Decoding the New Taliban offers the reader a keen, first-hand sense of field research in Afghanistan, with all its uncertainties and contradictions. The authors, working on different regions or themes, offer new data and thought-provoking analyses. This book is an important step in understanding our failure in the current war.' --Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
'Antonio Giustozzi, a fellow at the London School of Economics, is the editor of a new volume of research essays about the Taliban entitled Decoding the New Taliban. It is an outstanding and important collection just the sort of locally specific, openly debatable, scholarly analysis about the diverse structures and leaders of the Taliban that will be required more and more if the international community is ever to understand the insurgents and divine how to prevent a second Taliban revolution.' --Steve Coll, New Yorker, November 2009
'Far removed from the usual cliches and hasty generalisations, Decoding the New Taliban offers the reader a keen, first-hand sense of field research in Afghanistan, with all its uncertainties and contradictions. The authors, working on different regions or themes, offer new data and thought-provoking analyses. This book is an important step in understanding our failure in the current war.' --Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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While the 'New Taliban' looms large in the global media, little is known about how it functions as an organisation. How united is it? Are its structures relatively strong, or surprisingly brittle? Are personal relations and networking based on traditional ties of kin and ethnicity the sum total of its organisational capabilities, or are efforts underway to build more institutionalised chains of command? How united is the New Taliban, and how does it maintain whatever degree of unity it has, given the attrition it has suffered in the field? And to what extent is its leadership able to impose switches in strategy among the rank-and- file, given Afghanistan's difficult geography and poor communications? These are among the questions answered in this book by a renowned cast of practitioners, journalists and academics, all of whom have long field experience of the latest phase of the New Taliban's insurgency in Afghanistan. 'Decoding the New Taliban' includes a number of detailed studies of specific regions or provinces, which for different reasons are especially significant for the Taliban and for understanding their expansion. Alongside these regional studies, the volume includes thematic analyses of negotiating with the Taliban, the Taliban's propaganda effort and its strategic vision.
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