William Maley

A searing indictment of how Afghan elites and the Western powers pulled the rug on the Afghan people, abandoning them to their fate. The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan addresses the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, which was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive,...

This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organisations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive experience, but few countries have paid as high a cost to retain traditionally accepted relationships of authority as has Afghanistan since the communist coup.