Books, Chapters and Research Papers

Course Readings: Afghanistan — Geography, Politics & International Relations

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Module	Reading	Author/Title (Description)	Link	Tag (Priority / Type)
Module 1	📚	Dupree, *Afghanistan* — Chapter 1	View PDF
Module 1	📚	Dupree, *Afghanistan* — Chapter 2	View PDF
Module 1	🗺️	Water Resources of Afghanistan — Part I & II	View PDF
Module 2	🧠	Tuathail, *Critical Geopolitics* — Geopower	Access	Core
Module 2	🧠	Grygiel, *Great Powers and Geopolitical Change*	View PDF	Core
Module 3	📕	Barfield, *Afghanistan, Cultural & Political History* — Ch 1	View PDF	High
Module 3	📘	Nabi, *State to Nation* — Chapter 2	View PDF	Medium
Module 3	📙	Conrad Schetter, *Ethnoscape*	Access Article	High
Module 3	📗	Robert Canfield, *Ethnic, Regional and Sectarian Alignments*	View PDF	Medium
Module 3	📓	*Ethno Federalism and Ethno Geopolitics*	View PDF	Medium
Module 4	⚔️	Barfield, Anglo-Afghan Wars and State Creation — Ch 3	View PDF
Module 4	⚔️	Reunion, *History of Afghanistan* — Chapter 6	View PDF
Module 5	🏛️	Saikal, *Modern Afghanistan* — Chapter 1	View PDF	Medium
Module 5	🏛️	Rasanayagam, *Afghanistan, A Modern History* — Ch 1–2	View PDF	High
Module 6	❄️	The Saur Revolution	View PDF	Historical
Module 6	❄️	Soviet policy towards Afghanistan (Collins)	View PDF	Analytical
Module 6	❄️	Afghanistan and the USSR	View PDF	Documentary
Module 6	🎯	Game Theoretical Model (Rubin)	View PDF	Theoretical
Module 7	⚠️	Dorronsorro, Ethniciisation of Conflict	View PDF
Module 8	🤝	Pakistan and Afghanistan (Rasul B Rais)	View PDF	High
Module 8	🤝	Taliban, Oil and Fundamentalism (Rashid)	View PDF	Medium
Module 8	🤝	Pashtunistan Issue (Rasanayagam)	View PDF	High
Module 8	🤝	Pakistan's Perspective on Pashtunistan	View PDF	Medium
Module 8	🎯	The End-Game in Afghanistan (Rubin-Rashid)	View PDF	Theoretical
Module 9	🤝	Iran's Afghanistan Policy (Koepke)	View PDF
Module 10	🌏	Perspectives from Central Asia (Nourzhanov & Saikal)	View PDF
Module 10	🌏	Central Asia's Response to Afghan Challenges	View PDF
Module 11	🐉	China's Strategic Interest in Afghanistan	View PDF
Module 11	🐉	China's Afghanistan Policy	View PDF
Module 11	🐉	Central Asia, China and Afghanistan	View PDF
Module 12	🇮🇳	India's Afghanistan Policy and Pakistani Factor	View PDF
Module 12	🇮🇳	Obama's Af-Pak Policy	Access
Module 13	💎	Geoeconomic Watershed (Dhaka)	View PDF	High
Module 13	💎	Post-2014 Situation: Afghanistan Beyond 2014	View PDF	Medium
Module 13	💎	Minerals of Afghanistan (Ministry of Mines)	View PDF	Medium

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Additional Resources

Icon	Resource (Description)	Link
🗺️	US Military Academy, Regional Geography of Afghanistan	Ch 3–4
📷	Afghanistan Today: Glimpse of ordinary life	Report
📊	Afghanistan Human Development report 2007	Chapter 1
🧠	Anthony D. Smith on Nation and Modernism	Section 1
🕌	Article by Ashraf Ghani: Islam and State-building	Access
⚒️	Marwat, Communism in Afghanistan	Ch 6
🇵🇰	Pakistan's role (Weinbaum)	View PDF
🐉	China's Caution on Afghanistan (Andrew Small)	Paper

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Syllabus

Legend: Red = High Priority • Blue = Supplementary/Background • Green = Theoretical/Model-based • No color = Standard reading