Humanitarian invasion: global development in Afghanistan from the Cold War. Nunan T.

In 1979-1989, Afghanistan was not just another platform on which the performance of the Cold War was played with the participation of the USSR and its enemies, but also by the place where the question of various political forces was resolved to the idea of ​​the post-colonial state. The Afghanistan, which was once clamped between the empires, turned out to be the field of the battle of two incompatible approaches to the problem of the sovereignty of developing countries: Soviet territorial authoritarianism and western post -state humanitarianism. So, one of the influential actors in Afghan events became humanitarian non -governmental organizations, whose principles and actions undermined the legitimacy of national borders. In the dispute of the mentioned concepts, Afghanistan played the role not so much the “cemetery of empires” as the cemetery of the idea of ​​the national state in the third world.

The work of a free university professor in Berlin Timothy Nunan is devoted to the history of the tragic interaction of Afghanistan with the outside world throughout the 20th century. Her heroes were financial agents and trading representatives who came to Kabul from different countries, American hydrologists, Soviet oil workers and West German forestry specialists, Komsomol advisers and activists who helped solve the “female issue” in a Muslim country.