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PEACE-BUILDING--AFGHANISTAN--INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION --- PEACEKEEPING FORCES--AFGHANISTAN --- AFGHAN WAR, 2001-

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"As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw, the shocking tale of how the American military had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the dead. In the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractable conflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire. But as Anand Gopal demonstrates in this stunning chronicle, top Taliban leaders were in fact ready to surrender within months of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, renouncing all political activity and submitting to the new government. Effectively, the Taliban ceased to exist--yet the American forces were not ready to accept such a turnaround. Driven by false intelligence from corrupt warlords and by a misguided conviction that Taliban members could never change sides, the U.S. instead continued to press the conflict, resurrecting the insurgency that persists to this day. Gopal's dramatic narrative, full of vivid personal detail, follows three Afghans through years of U.S. missteps: a Taliban commander, a U.S.-backed warlord, and a housewife trapped in the middle of the fighting. With its intimate accounts of life in small Afghan villages, and harrowing tales of crimes committed by Taliban leaders and American-supported provincial officials alike, No Good Men Among the Living lays bare the workings of America's longest war and the truth behind its prolonged agony.--Publisher information.

TALIBAN --- AFGHAN WAR, 2001-2021 --- AFGHAN WAR, 2001-2021--PERSONAL NARRATIVES, AMERICAN --- COUNTERINSURGENCY--AFGHANISTAN --- PEACE-BUILDING--AFGHANISTAN --- INTERNAL SECURITY--AFGHANISTAN --- 2001-2021

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La défaite des Talibans dans le sillage des attentats du 11 septembre ouvre deux décennies d’investissement occidental en Afghanistan. Des centaines de milliards de dollars, pour l’essentiel consacrés à l’entretien des forces occidentales, des dizaines de milliers de morts, dont plusieurs milliers de la coalition, montrent l’importance de ce conflit pour les Etats-Unis qui en font le symbole de leur hégémonie mondiale. Mais, derrière les discours sur la construction d’une « démocratie de marché », se profile un gouvernement transnational qui contourne les acteurs afghans au point d’interdire tout processus démocratique, couvre des fraudes électorales massives, routinise la captation des ressources au profit des entreprises occidentales et des élites afghanes. Les tensions communautaires et sociales s’accroissent à un point jusque-là inconnu dans la société afghane. Les Talibans, capitalisant sur le ressentiment populaire contre les élites au pouvoir, mettent en échec une alliance occidentale qui dissimule, derrière une augmentation des moyens, son incapacité à définir une stratégie cohérente. Après vingt ans de conflit, al-Qaïda est toujours présent en Afghanistan, et le retrait américain ne fait qu’ouvrir une nouvelle période d’une guerre civile vieille de quarante ans. Ce nouvel essai de Gilles Dorronsoro propose une analyse critique impitoyable des impasses de l’expertise orientaliste et sécurocrate dont la portée comparative, bien au-delà du seul cas afghan, est d’une haute actualité.

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