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Descriptions on Soviet intervention including motives of Soviet occupation (Arnold, 1985), the Afghan resistance (Farr and Merriam, 1988), the Afghan response to the communist rule (Roy, 19986), the covert dealings of the Cold War game (Yousaf and Adkin, 1992) and intentions of the superpowers (through a first-hand testimony) (Anwar, 1988) and the diplomatic process leading to the Soviet withdrawal (Khan, 1993) provide significant understanding of the nature of conflict that has impaired the country. External interferences in Afghan have been significantlydealtwith(Maass,1999;Amin,1994;Maley1998). Issues of state formation and collapse (Rubin, 1995 a) and the international politics of negotiation over Afghanistan (Rubin, 1995 b) analyse both specific patterns of state formation and particular problems of regime change. Analytical and contemplative works on the rise of the Taleban (Matinuddin, 1999), mass mobilisation, civil war and the future of the region (Nojumi, 2002; Maley, ed.,1998) are genuine attempts to find out whether Taleban was an Islamic revolution of the Pashtuns (Rieck,1997) or a phenomenon exporting fundamentalism and terrorism (Rashid, 1999).
The challenges and dilemmas of post-war state-building (Barakat, 2002; Their and Chopra, 2002; Ozerdem, 2002) and peace-building in post-conflict societies (Jeong, 2006) are fairly speculative. The progress and pitfalls of the Bonn process (Waldman, 2008) including elections (Wilder, 2005), constitution (Goodson, 2004), and security issues (Rhode, 2007) have been specific analytical works on the current Afghan scenario.
Literature on the different phases of conflict in Afghanistan and the post-2001 rebuilding in the country happens to be quantitatively substantial. A considerable amount of literature has been produced after the entry of the Soviet troops into Afghanistan and with an outpour of western discourses denouncing the intervention. With the pullout of the Soviet troops, Afghanistan’s politics had acquired a critical dimension and the interest in Afghanistan continued unabated. With the Taleban consolidating their position in Afghanistan, comments were made in abundance on their activities in Afghanistan, the US’s changed strategy related to Afghanistan and Pakistan and the former’s strategic importance.

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