New Books Humanitarian Invasion

Covering the period from the Cold War to Taliban rule, Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan is an international history of state-building in Afghanistan based on dozens of interviews and research in former Soviet, Western, and NGO archives. Timothy Nunan ’08, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, argues that Afghanistan functioned as a laboratory for the future of the Third World nation-state.