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This book explores the what, the why, and the how of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan almost 20 years after their removal from power. It examines how the U.S. discourses on War on Terror and state-building in Afghanistan have taken shape, became dominant over the past two decades, and to delineate their consequences. Also, it highlights how both discourses are representative of wider depoliticization of the society and eventually paved the way for the illiberal, oppressive politics of confinement and necropolitics.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, U.S. foreign policy, peace and conflict studies, area studies, especially West Asian and South Asian studies.



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Prelude: The Scene 1. Four Presidents, One Discourse 2. Post-2001 Afghanistan: from the Politics of Confinement to Necropolitics 3. The Taliban of the past and the present: Afghanistan under a new round of necroplitics 4. Epilogue

Turbulent Afghanistan

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1/22/2023 12:09:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781032542898
      978-1032542898
      ISBN-10 1032542896
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book explores the what, the why, and the how of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan almost 20 years after their removal from power. It examines how the U.S. discourses on War on Terror and state-building in Afghanistan have taken shape, became dominant over the past two decades, and to delineate their consequences. Also, it highlights how both discourses are representative of wider depoliticization of the society and eventually paved the way for the illiberal, oppressive politics of confinement and necropolitics.

      The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, U.S. foreign policy, peace and conflict studies, area studies, especially West Asian and South Asian studies.



      Table of Contents

      Prelude: The Scene 1. Four Presidents, One Discourse 2. Post-2001 Afghanistan: from the Politics of Confinement to Necropolitics 3. The Taliban of the past and the present: Afghanistan under a new round of necroplitics 4. Epilogue

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