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Verteidigung am Hindukusch?by Georg Löfflmann
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 35.39Der militärische Einsatz der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan offenbart ein strategisches Dilemma deutscher Sicherheitspolitik. In der jüngsten Vergangenheit wurden deutsche Soldaten zwar zu Wiederaufbau-, Überwachungs- und Stabilisierungsmissionen herangezogen, die direkte militärische Bekämpfung gegnerischer Kräfte bildete in den bisherigen Auslandseinsätzen aber eine absolute Ausnahme. Auf Grund dieser Entwicklung wurde die Bundeswehr mitunter auch als "bewaffnetes Technisches Hilfswerk" tituliert. Die deutsche Öffentlichkeit ist an ein ziviles Bild der Bundeswehr gewöhnt, deren Soldaten als freundliche Helfer der lokalen Bevölkerung auftreten, Schulen und Krankenhäuser errichten und sich wohltuend vom martialischen Auftreten anderer Nationen abheben.Tatsächlich... more...
The Dressmaker of Khair Khanaby Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 9.99The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil wara rare achievement for any Afghan womanKamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila's... more...
Murder in the Hindu Kushby Tim Hannigan
The History Press 2011; US$ 27.69On a bright July morning in 1870 the British explorer George Hayward was brutally murdered high in the Hindu Kush. Who was he, what had brought him to this wild spot, and why was he killed? Told in full for the first time, this is the gripping tale of Hayward's journey from a Yorkshire childhood to a place at the forefront of the 'Great Game' between the British Raj and the Russian Empire, and of how, driven by 'an insane desire', he crossed the Western Himalayas, tangled with despotic chieftains and ended up on the wrong side of both the Raj and the mighty Maharaja of Kashmir. It is also the tale of the conspiracies that surrounded his death, while the author's own travels in Hayward's footsteps bring the story up to date, and reveal how... more...
Bazaar Politicsby Noah Coburn
Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 22.95After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent history in a country dealing with a growing insurgency. At the heart of this story are the Istalifi potters, skilled craftsmen trained over generations. With workshops organized around extended families and competition between workshops strong, kinship relations become political and subtle negotiations over power and authority underscore most interactions.... more...
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