Contemporary Afghanistan

A country of incomprehensible intricacy and unremitting crisis, it is sometimes trendy to describe today’s Afghanistan as a post-conflict country. This is misleading, because, for centuries, Afghanistan has been suffering from a variety of domestic and international conflicts at different levels and varying intensity and there are no signs of this trend waning away. Afghanistan is a conflict-prone state, conflict being endemic to the Afghan society. The book explores the state of Afghanistan fro