Umfang:
Online-Ressource (ix, 450 p., [8] p. of plates)
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ill., maps
ISBN:
1280524642
,
9781280524646
,
9780195362688
Inhalt:
Contents -- Map of Afghanistan -- Overview: Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War -- I: 1973-1979 The Road to Intervention -- 1. How The Soviet Union Stumbled into Afghanistan -- Exit the King, Enter the Superpowers -- The KGB, the GRU, and the Afghan Communists -- Ending the Soviet Tilt -- On the Eve of the Communist Coup -- An Afghan Coup, Afghan Style -- The Emergence of Amin -- Vance versus Brzezinski -- Moscow Rejects Intervention -- Showdown in Kabul: The Murder of Taraki -- Did Amin Signal Washington? -- The Decision to Intervene -- II: 1980-1981 The Last Days of Brezhnev
Inhalt:
2. Soviet Occupation, Afghan Resistance, and the American Response -- A Stillborn U.S. Peace Initiative -- Zia's Great Expectations -- The Red Army Under Fire -- Islamabad and the Resistance: Divide and Rule -- An Opening for the United Nations -- Pakistan Becomes a Frontline State -- Upgrading Afghan Aid -- The New Soviet Offensive Strategy -- 3. My Mission Begins -- III: 1982-1983 Andropov: The Lost Opportunity -- 4. Making the Russians Bleed -- ""A Capacity for Realism"" -- Pakistan Reverses Course -- The Andropov Legacy -- Casey and the U.N. Negotiations -- Hawks and Doves in Islamabad
Inhalt:
5. From Breakthrough to Breakdown -- IV: 1984 The Chernenko Interregnum -- 6. The War Escalates -- The Resistance on the Offensive -- A Visit to Kabul -- Representative Wilson Settles a Score -- Pakistan, the Fundamentalists, and the King -- 7. The Long Winter -- V: 1985-1986 Gorbachev: Preparing the Ground for Disengagement -- 8. ""Bleeders,"" ""Dealers,"" and Perestroika -- A Victory for the ""Dealers"" -- The Stinger Decision -- Did the Stingers Matter? -- Confrontation with Karmal -- Building a Shadow Government -- Moscow Gives Kabul a Deadline -- 9. The Slow Thaw
Inhalt:
VI: 1987-1988 The End Game -- 10. Realpolitik Vindicated -- Can ""Our Boys"" Survive?: The Soviet Debate -- Can the Resistance Govern?: American Illusions -- Zia and ""Strategic Realignment"" -- The United States Moves the Goalposts -- To Sign or Not to Sign -- 11. The Final Hurdles: ""Linkage"" and the Time Frame -- 12. Climax and Anticlimax: The Geneva Accords -- Epilogue: The Withdrawal and After -- Appendix: The Geneva Accords -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-425) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1280524162
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780195062946
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Cordovez, Diego Out of Afghanistan : The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal Oxford : Oxford University Press,c1995
Sprache:
Englisch
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