Out of Afghanistan The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal

Name: Out of Afghanistan The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal
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ISBN: 9780195062946

ISBN-10: 0195062949

ISBN-13: 9780195062946

Edition: 1995

Authors: Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison

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The Soviet withdrawal from Afganistan has been largely attributed to the bravery of the Afghan resistance reinforced by American weaponry and support. This book shows how it was infact years of persistent United Nations initiatives that proved crucial to the conclusion of the Geneva accords, and that the ideological hard line of the Reagan administration prolonged the conflict.Diego Cordovez, the United Nations mediator for the Afghanistan conflict, and prominent foreign policy analyst Selig Harrison have written the definitive account of the negotiations that helped end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the last great clash of the cold war.

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List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/29/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 472
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.61" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Undersecretary-General for Special Political Affairs of the United Nations from 1981 to 1988, Diego Cordovez was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the Geneva Accords. Selig S. Harrison, a former Washington Post foreign correspondent and the author of five books about Asia, is a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.



Map of Afghanistan


Overview: Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War




How The Soviet Union Stumbled into Afghanistan




Soviet Occupation, Afghan Resistance, and the American Response




My Mission Begins




Making the Russians Bleed




From Breakthrough to Breakdown




The War Escalates




The Long Winter




"Bleeders," "Dealers," and Perestroika




The Slow Thaw




Realpolitik Vindicated




The Final Hurdles: "Linkage" and the Time Frame




Climax and Anticlimax: The Geneva Accords



Epilogue: The Withdrawal and After



Appendix: The Geneva Accords


Notes


Index