Micheline Centlivres-Demont is an anthropologist and specialist on Afghanistan. She has been the editor of Afghanistan Info, an analytical periodical, since 1980. She is the author of Popular Art in Afghanistan: Paintings on Trucks, Mosques and Tea-Houses, and the co-author of Portraits d'Afghanistan, Revoir Kaboul and Afghanistan on the Threshold of the 21st Century.

"This is an enormously valuable collection. The list of contributors reads like a roll-call of experts on Afghanistan. There is hardly an aspect of Afghan politics, culture and society that is not illuminated here. Every contribution is brief, rarely more than four pages, like the typical journalistic columns that have been staple fare since 1978. The difference is that these authors really know what they are writing about.", Richard Tapper, Emeritus Professor, Anthropology & Sociology, SOAS; "This is a fine and all-too-timely collection of expert witnesses to the fate of Afghanistan, covering topics from statecraft, gender and ethnicity through agriculture and music. Centlivres-Demont has fifty years of Afghan experience and a keen eye for the accuracy and insider knowledge of the contributors.", Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University; "A unique and immensely valuable perspective on the tragic recent history of Afghanistan [...]. There is nothing like this book. Start here if you wish to cut through the political spin, and let this excellent volume lead you to the Afghanistan Info archive and its unparalleled coverage of the people and country. I.B.Tauris is to be congratulated. This book is important.", Nancy Lindisfarne, Anthropologist and Afghan Scholar, SOAS; "This set of articles on Afghan events as they happened over the past three decades is a unique contribution to the field. That they well deserve publication in a collected volume is evidence of both their quality and unmatched perceptiveness.", Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University; "This book offers to all specialists and aficionados of Afghanistan a unique insight into the various phases of the Afghan crisis from 1980 to the present. The multiple dimensions of this protracted conflict are described and analyzed by experts and witnesses from a great variety of perspectives. The book is in many respects a tribute to the resilience of the Afghan people; it reflects the unfailing commitment of Micheline Centlivres-Demont, its editor, to keep for almost four decades the situation of the country [and] the plight of its people on the radar screen of governments, civil society organizations and the media.", Jacques Forster, Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

• Micheline Centlivres-DemontForewordOlivier RoyIntroductionPART I:The PDPA Regime, 1978 – 19891. Micheline Centlivres-DemontThe Bridge on the Amu-Daria  2. Aziz Zekrya All Roads lead to Rome  3. Michel FoucherThe Geopolitical Stakes from the Soviet Point of View 4. Jean-Christophe Victor  Pakistan on the Front Line  5. Erwin Grötzbach The Afghanistan Land Reform of 1979 Aftermath 6. Chantal Lobato The Kabul Government 7. Rémy Dor What is Becoming of the Kyrgyz in Turkey?  8. Olivier RoyThe Afghan Situation in Summer 1987 9. Olivier Roy Towards a Soviet Withdrawal?  10. Pierre Centlivres and Micheline Centlivres-Demont  Afghan Women Today  11. Mushahid HussainPakistan and the Afghan Issue12. Selig S. HarrisonAfghanistan: an American View13. Rolf BindemannThe Political Reconstruction of Afghanistan 14. Pierre CentlivresThe Russians Ready to intervene in Afghanistan PART IIThe Mujahedeen Moment, 1990-199615. Jean-José PuigFinding a Political Solution 16. Mushahid HussainPakistan’s Afghan Policy: No Light at the End of the Tunnel 17. Arnold HottingerAfghanistan and the Arab World  18. William MaleyConsociationalism and Afghan Political Order 19.William Maley The Reconstruction of the Afghan State 20. Nancy Hatch DupreeAfghan Women view the Future 21. Bernard DupaigneHerat, a Model and an Opportunity for Afghanistan 22. Asta OlesenReflections on the political Development since the Fall of the PDPA Regime 23. Frédéric GrareFrom Pashtunistan to Central Asia» 24. Barnett R. RubinThe Instability of Power25. Rolf Bindemann Ethnicity Cannot be the Basis for a Common Policy 26. Sayyid Qasim ReshtiaSome Reflection on the Pashtunistan Problem PART IIIAfghanistan under the Taliban, 1996-200127. Olivier Roy Regional Impact of the Taliban Breakthrough 28. William MaleyThe Taliban : Fundamentalist, Traditionalist orTotalitarian? 29. Nancy Hatch DupreeThe Kabul Museum under the Taliban30. Ludwig AdamecGreater Afghanistan – A missed Chance? 31. Barnett R. RubinThe End of US Policy toward Afghanistan? 32. Citha MaassTaliban : The New Forces of Law and Order  33. Gilles Dorronsoro The Taliban : new revolutionary Dynamics and regionalContext 34. Peter MarsdenThe Impact of the Taliban on the Afghan Economy 35. John BailyThe Culture of Music in the Afghan transnational Community 36. Ahmed RashidAfghanistan’s War Economy and Global Reach 37. Pierre CentlivresFarewell to the Buddhas of Bamiyan PART IVAfter the Taliban38. Olivier RoyAfghanistan after the Taliban 39. Antonio GiustozziEthnicity and Politics in Afghanistan. The Roleplayed by Setam-e melli 40. Christophe de Ponfilly Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Man behind the Legend  41. William MaleyReconstituting State Power in Afghanistan 42. Gilbert EtienneA Bad Start to Reconstruction 43. Alessandro Monsutti Letter to a Father44. Raphy FavreAgriculture in Afghanistan. A Contribution for a better Understanding 45. Ahmed RashidAfghanistan and Pakistan46. Micheline Centlivres-Demont  The New Afghan Constitution  47. Antonio DoniniWhat went wrong? Humanitarianism in Crisisin Afghanistan 48. Conrad SchetterFive Theses on Structural Instability of Afghanistan

Micheline Centlivres-Demont is an anthropologist and specialist on Afghanistan. She has been the editor of Afghanistan Info, an analytical periodical, since 1980. She is the author of Popular Art in Afghanistan: Paintings on Trucks, Mosques and Tea-Houses, and the co-author of Portraits d'Afghanistan, Revoir Kaboul and Afghanistan on the Threshold of the 21st Century.

"This is an enormously valuable collection. The list of contributors reads like a roll-call of experts on Afghanistan. There is hardly an aspect of Afghan politics, culture and society that is not illuminated here. Every contribution is brief, rarely more than four pages, like the typical journalistic columns that have been staple fare since 1978. The difference is that these authors really know what they are writing about.", Richard Tapper, Emeritus Professor, Anthropology & Sociology, SOAS; "This is a fine and all-too-timely collection of expert witnesses to the fate of Afghanistan, covering topics from statecraft, gender and ethnicity through agriculture and music. Centlivres-Demont has fifty years of Afghan experience and a keen eye for the accuracy and insider knowledge of the contributors.", Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University; "A unique and immensely valuable perspective on the tragic recent history of Afghanistan [...]. There is nothing like this book. Start here if you wish to cut through the political spin, and let this excellent volume lead you to the Afghanistan Info archive and its unparalleled coverage of the people and country. I.B.Tauris is to be congratulated. This book is important.", Nancy Lindisfarne, Anthropologist and Afghan Scholar, SOAS; "This set of articles on Afghan events as they happened over the past three decades is a unique contribution to the field. That they well deserve publication in a collected volume is evidence of both their quality and unmatched perceptiveness.", Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University; "This book offers to all specialists and aficionados of Afghanistan a unique insight into the various phases of the Afghan crisis from 1980 to the present. The multiple dimensions of this protracted conflict are described and analyzed by experts and witnesses from a great variety of perspectives. The book is in many respects a tribute to the resilience of the Afghan people; it reflects the unfailing commitment of Micheline Centlivres-Demont, its editor, to keep for almost four decades the situation of the country [and] the plight of its people on the radar screen of governments, civil society organizations and the media.", Jacques Forster, Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

• Micheline Centlivres-DemontForewordOlivier RoyIntroductionPART I:The PDPA Regime, 1978 – 19891. Micheline Centlivres-DemontThe Bridge on the Amu-Daria  2. Aziz Zekrya All Roads lead to Rome  3. Michel FoucherThe Geopolitical Stakes from the Soviet Point of View 4. Jean-Christophe Victor  Pakistan on the Front Line  5. Erwin Grötzbach The Afghanistan Land Reform of 1979 Aftermath 6. Chantal Lobato The Kabul Government 7. Rémy Dor What is Becoming of the Kyrgyz in Turkey?  8. Olivier RoyThe Afghan Situation in Summer 1987 9. Olivier Roy Towards a Soviet Withdrawal?  10. Pierre Centlivres and Micheline Centlivres-Demont  Afghan Women Today  11. Mushahid HussainPakistan and the Afghan Issue12. Selig S. HarrisonAfghanistan: an American View13. Rolf BindemannThe Political Reconstruction of Afghanistan 14. Pierre CentlivresThe Russians Ready to intervene in Afghanistan PART IIThe Mujahedeen Moment, 1990-199615. Jean-José PuigFinding a Political Solution 16. Mushahid HussainPakistan’s Afghan Policy: No Light at the End of the Tunnel 17. Arnold HottingerAfghanistan and the Arab World  18. William MaleyConsociationalism and Afghan Political Order 19.William Maley The Reconstruction of the Afghan State 20. Nancy Hatch DupreeAfghan Women view the Future 21. Bernard DupaigneHerat, a Model and an Opportunity for Afghanistan 22. Asta OlesenReflections on the political Development since the Fall of the PDPA Regime 23. Frédéric GrareFrom Pashtunistan to Central Asia» 24. Barnett R. RubinThe Instability of Power25. Rolf Bindemann Ethnicity Cannot be the Basis for a Common Policy 26. Sayyid Qasim ReshtiaSome Reflection on the Pashtunistan Problem PART IIIAfghanistan under the Taliban, 1996-200127. Olivier Roy Regional Impact of the Taliban Breakthrough 28. William MaleyThe Taliban : Fundamentalist, Traditionalist orTotalitarian? 29. Nancy Hatch DupreeThe Kabul Museum under the Taliban30. Ludwig AdamecGreater Afghanistan – A missed Chance? 31. Barnett R. RubinThe End of US Policy toward Afghanistan? 32. Citha MaassTaliban : The New Forces of Law and Order  33. Gilles Dorronsoro The Taliban : new revolutionary Dynamics and regionalContext 34. Peter MarsdenThe Impact of the Taliban on the Afghan Economy 35. John BailyThe Culture of Music in the Afghan transnational Community 36. Ahmed RashidAfghanistan’s War Economy and Global Reach 37. Pierre CentlivresFarewell to the Buddhas of Bamiyan PART IVAfter the Taliban38. Olivier RoyAfghanistan after the Taliban 39. Antonio GiustozziEthnicity and Politics in Afghanistan. The Roleplayed by Setam-e melli 40. Christophe de Ponfilly Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Man behind the Legend  41. William MaleyReconstituting State Power in Afghanistan 42. Gilbert EtienneA Bad Start to Reconstruction 43. Alessandro Monsutti Letter to a Father44. Raphy FavreAgriculture in Afghanistan. A Contribution for a better Understanding 45. Ahmed RashidAfghanistan and Pakistan46. Micheline Centlivres-Demont  The New Afghan Constitution  47. Antonio DoniniWhat went wrong? Humanitarianism in Crisisin Afghanistan 48. Conrad SchetterFive Theses on Structural Instability of Afghanistan

Micheline Centlivres-Demont is an anthropologist and specialist on Afghanistan. She has been the editor of Afghanistan Info, an analytical periodical, since 1980. She is the author of Popular Art in Afghanistan: Paintings on Trucks, Mosques and Tea-Houses, and the co-author of Portraits d'Afghanistan, Revoir Kaboul and Afghanistan on the Threshold of the 21st Century.

"This is an enormously valuable collection. The list of contributors reads like a roll-call of experts on Afghanistan. There is hardly an aspect of Afghan politics, culture and society that is not illuminated here. Every contribution is brief, rarely more than four pages, like the typical journalistic columns that have been staple fare since 1978. The difference is that these authors really know what they are writing about.", Richard Tapper, Emeritus Professor, Anthropology & Sociology, SOAS; "This is a fine and all-too-timely collection of expert witnesses to the fate of Afghanistan, covering topics from statecraft, gender and ethnicity through agriculture and music. Centlivres-Demont has fifty years of Afghan experience and a keen eye for the accuracy and insider knowledge of the contributors.", Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University; "A unique and immensely valuable perspective on the tragic recent history of Afghanistan [...]. There is nothing like this book. Start here if you wish to cut through the political spin, and let this excellent volume lead you to the Afghanistan Info archive and its unparalleled coverage of the people and country. I.B.Tauris is to be congratulated. This book is important.", Nancy Lindisfarne, Anthropologist and Afghan Scholar, SOAS; "This set of articles on Afghan events as they happened over the past three decades is a unique contribution to the field. That they well deserve publication in a collected volume is evidence of both their quality and unmatched perceptiveness.", Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University; "This book offers to all specialists and aficionados of Afghanistan a unique insight into the various phases of the Afghan crisis from 1980 to the present. The multiple dimensions of this protracted conflict are described and analyzed by experts and witnesses from a great variety of perspectives. The book is in many respects a tribute to the resilience of the Afghan people; it reflects the unfailing commitment of Micheline Centlivres-Demont, its editor, to keep for almost four decades the situation of the country [and] the plight of its people on the radar screen of governments, civil society organizations and the media.", Jacques Forster, Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

• Micheline Centlivres-DemontForewordOlivier RoyIntroductionPART I:The PDPA Regime, 1978 – 19891. Micheline Centlivres-DemontThe Bridge on the Amu-Daria  2. Aziz Zekrya All Roads lead to Rome  3. Michel FoucherThe Geopolitical Stakes from the Soviet Point of View 4. Jean-Christophe Victor  Pakistan on the Front Line  5. Erwin Grötzbach The Afghanistan Land Reform of 1979 Aftermath 6. Chantal Lobato The Kabul Government 7. Rémy Dor What is Becoming of the Kyrgyz in Turkey?  8. Olivier RoyThe Afghan Situation in Summer 1987 9. Olivier Roy Towards a Soviet Withdrawal?  10. Pierre Centlivres and Micheline Centlivres-Demont  Afghan Women Today  11. Mushahid HussainPakistan and the Afghan Issue12. Selig S. HarrisonAfghanistan: an American View13. Rolf BindemannThe Political Reconstruction of Afghanistan 14. Pierre CentlivresThe Russians Ready to intervene in Afghanistan PART IIThe Mujahedeen Moment, 1990-199615. Jean-José PuigFinding a Political Solution 16. Mushahid HussainPakistan’s Afghan Policy: No Light at the End of the Tunnel 17. Arnold HottingerAfghanistan and the Arab World  18. William MaleyConsociationalism and Afghan Political Order 19.William Maley The Reconstruction of the Afghan State 20. Nancy Hatch DupreeAfghan Women view the Future 21. Bernard DupaigneHerat, a Model and an Opportunity for Afghanistan 22. Asta OlesenReflections on the political Development since the Fall of the PDPA Regime 23. Frédéric GrareFrom Pashtunistan to Central Asia» 24. Barnett R. RubinThe Instability of Power25. Rolf Bindemann Ethnicity Cannot be the Basis for a Common Policy 26. Sayyid Qasim ReshtiaSome Reflection on the Pashtunistan Problem PART IIIAfghanistan under the Taliban, 1996-200127. Olivier Roy Regional Impact of the Taliban Breakthrough 28. William MaleyThe Taliban : Fundamentalist, Traditionalist orTotalitarian? 29. Nancy Hatch DupreeThe Kabul Museum under the Taliban30. Ludwig AdamecGreater Afghanistan – A missed Chance? 31. Barnett R. RubinThe End of US Policy toward Afghanistan? 32. Citha MaassTaliban : The New Forces of Law and Order  33. Gilles Dorronsoro The Taliban : new revolutionary Dynamics and regionalContext 34. Peter MarsdenThe Impact of the Taliban on the Afghan Economy 35. John BailyThe Culture of Music in the Afghan transnational Community 36. Ahmed RashidAfghanistan’s War Economy and Global Reach 37. Pierre CentlivresFarewell to the Buddhas of Bamiyan PART IVAfter the Taliban38. Olivier RoyAfghanistan after the Taliban 39. Antonio GiustozziEthnicity and Politics in Afghanistan. The Roleplayed by Setam-e melli 40. Christophe de Ponfilly Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Man behind the Legend  41. William MaleyReconstituting State Power in Afghanistan 42. Gilbert EtienneA Bad Start to Reconstruction 43. Alessandro Monsutti Letter to a Father44. Raphy FavreAgriculture in Afghanistan. A Contribution for a better Understanding 45. Ahmed RashidAfghanistan and Pakistan46. Micheline Centlivres-Demont  The New Afghan Constitution  47. Antonio DoniniWhat went wrong? Humanitarianism in Crisisin Afghanistan 48. Conrad SchetterFive Theses on Structural Instability of Afghanistan