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A critical study of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars :

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TLets570423

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A critical study of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars :

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Tripathi, Deepak

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interests, motives, actions and the makings of a culture of violence

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Shaw, Martin ; Kent, Gregory

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University of Roehampton

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2012

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Thesis (Ph.D.)

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2012

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This submission includes two studies, based primarily on the use of historical archives, of the Afghan wars from 1978 and the Iraq War from 2003. Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (2011) is a study of various layers of the Afghan conflict: the 1978 communist coup; the 1979 Soviet invasion and America's proxy war against the Soviet occupying forces in the 1980s; and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s. It shows how Islamist groups allied to the West against Soviet and Afghan communism turned into enemies of the United States, with consequences including the September 11, 2001 attacks, President George W. Bush's retaliation against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the invasion of Iraq. Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan (2010) is an analysis of the George W. Bush presidency in terms of its "war on terror." The books thus study the Afghan and Iraqi conflicts in the context of United States foreign policy, with particular emphasis on the interests, actions and motives of actors in the conflicts and the interactions between internal and external actors. The central argument is that these factors contributed to the development of a "culture of violence," defined as that "condition in which violence permeates all levels of society and becomes part of human thinking, behavior and way of life," and how this provided space for "terrorist" groups to operate.

Afghanistan war 1978 ; Iraq war 2003 ; Islamist terrorism

Tripathi, Deepak

Shaw, Martin ; Kent, Gregory

University of Roehampton

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