Introduction.- The Road to War.- Soviet Strategy, Tactics, and Dilemmas.- The Development of Afghan Resistance.- The Karmal Period, 1979–1986.- The Najibullah–Gorbachev Period, 1986–1989.- The Road to Soviet Withdrawal.- Consequences of the Soviet–Afghan War.- The Interregnum of Najibullah, 1989–1992.- The Rise and Fall of the Rabbani Government, 1992–1996.- The Rise and Rule of the Taliban, 1994–2001.- The Fall of the Taliban regime.- The Karzai era.- Afghanistan from 2014.
WILLIAM MALEY is Professor of Diplomacy at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University, Australia, where he served as Foundation Director from 2003 to 2014.