This study is an attempt to look at the United States’ responses to the various developments in and challenges of Afghanistan with a view to understand the dynamics of survival and failure of this land-locked country. Paradoxically, the study highlights a new perspective on the U.S.-Afghan relations during the cold war years. It finds, whenever Afghanistan moved close to the U.S., it had led to a negative Soviet response. The study mainly focuses on the American reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, and elaborates the process of American decision-making. Dr. Meher has collected research materials extensively both in India and the United States, and put together an empirical study very cohesively by using primary source information and data. This book should be useful for the students, teachers, diplomats, foreign policy makers, and people evincing interests on the U.S. foreign policy and Afghanistan.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jagmohan Meher
Dr. Jagmohan Meher, a former Fulbright Fellow in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, teaches Political Science and International Relations at National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune, India. He has been associated with the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, at the UIUC. Presently, Dr. Meher holds research associateship of the prestigious Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has traveled widely both in Indian and abroad, including the United States, France, and Germany in various research capacities. He is a frequent visitor to University Grants Commision Academic Staff Colleges and Universities to deliver lectures on different aspects of International Relations and American Foreign Policy.
He was associated with the Centre for Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Ford Foundation.
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