United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-114).

محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Hallak, Nancy (author)
التنسيق: masterThesis
منشور في: 2008
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/863
https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2008.31
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Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
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spelling United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)A success or failure?Hallak, NancyUnited States -- Foreign relations -- AfghanistanAfghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United StatesAfghan War, 2001- -- United StatesAfghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-114).Having contained the communist threat through the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan, the United States indirectly created a heavenly environment for extremists and terrorists. Afghanistan became increasingly unstable, and the world gained a new challenge: international terrorism. Two of the current and ongoing American foreign strategic goals are securing access to oil resources and fighting terrorists around the globe. These two goals became complementary to each other; in order to secure the oil resources, there has to be stability in the regions that have the most oil. Terrorists therefore constitute a barrier to such stability and peace as well as to achieving economic development in countries such as Afghanistan. This thesis first describes the history of American policy in Afghanistan, then tries to asses whether the United States has achieved its strategic goals of securing oil and fighting terrorism through its foreign policy in Afghanistan; in other words, the thesis asks: Has US foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet Era to the present been a success or a failure? Unfortunately, the thesis concludes that the US has not reached its foreign policy objectives. More importantly, Afghanistan has turned into a failing or failed state and a major drug trafficker. Terrorism has not yet been contained, and the killing of innocent civilians continues to escalate.1 bound copy: viii, 114 leaves; col. map; 30 cm. Available at RNL.Lebanese American University2011-10-24T09:01:31Z2011-10-24T09:01:31Z20082011-10-242008-02-08Thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesishttp://hdl.handle.net/10725/863https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2008.31eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/8632020-05-18T14:53:50Z
spellingShingle United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)
Hallak, Nancy
United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan
Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States
Afghan War, 2001- -- United States
Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
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title United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)
title_full United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)
title_fullStr United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)
title_full_unstemmed United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)
title_short United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)
title_sort United States foreign policy in Afghanistan from the Soviet era to the present. (c2008)
topic United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan
Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States
Afghan War, 2001- -- United States
Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
url http://hdl.handle.net/10725/863
https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2008.31