Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban

Traces the Taliban movement's origins, its rise to power, & the contradictions which made it impossible to accommodate within the internat. system. Exposes some of the misunderstandings which led to various powers, incl. the U.S., to believe that the Taliban could bring peace to Afghanistan after years of destructive conflict. Highlights steps that can be taken to assist the Afghan people to recover from the consequences of the fragmentation of their society, & its subordination to an anti-modernist force of a kind unprecedented in Afghanistan's recent history. A comprehensive account of the history, ascendancy, & decline of the most dramatic manifestation of Islamic fundamentalism since the Iranian revolution.Maley, William is the author of 'Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756774660 and ISBN 0756774667.