Regime Change In Afghanistan: Foreign Intervention And The Politics Of Legitimacy

by Amin Saikal, William Maley

Noting that, like many nonindustrial countries, Afghanistan has a weak government and a strong traditional social structure, describes the events since the 1987 communist coup in terms of native ideas of regime maintenance and political legitimacy. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

190 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

Amin Saikal is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Public Policy Fellow, and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Shah (Princeton) and Modern Afghanistan. He lives in Canberra.