Afghanistan’s Civil War

Gilles Dorronsoro, an assistant professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and a member of the editorial boards of Cultures et Conflits and Lettre d’Asie Centrale, is preparing a book on the Afghan civil war. Among his latest publications are “La politique de pacification en Afghanistan, ʻin Gérard Chaliand, editor, Stratégies de la guérilla (Paris: Payot, 1994), and “Les enjeux de I’aide en Afghanistan, ʻCultures et Conflits, no. 11 (Fall 1993). This article was translated from the French by Percival Manglano.