The Long Way Back: Afghanistan's Quest for Peace
Afghanistan is far from stable: Wounds left by thirty years of war are still raw. Terrorism is a daily menace. Roads are littered with Taliban bombs. Targeted killings and international impatience are fueling Afghan anxieties. Regional warlords, drug barons, and corrupt government officials all flout the conceit of a functional and unified nation. Pakistan’s aggressive influence is a real and constant presence. Yet Chris Alexander, former deputy head of the UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan and former Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan, sees something different: a peace that is not only theoretically possible but practically achievable giv…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-202037-6
- EAN: 9780062020376
- Produktnummer: 19412962
- Verlag: Harpercollins
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 281 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D3.0 cm 496 g
- Gewicht: 496
Über den Autor
Chris Alexander is a diplomat and politician who served for eighteen years as an international public servant and Canadian foreign service officer. From 2005 to 2009 he was the UN deputy special representative in Afghanistan, helping to lead the largest UN political mission in the world. Alexander was also the Canadian ambassador to that country and a key contributor to the effort to stabilize and support post-Taliban Afghanistan. He returned to Canada in 2009 and is now the Conservative MP for Ajax-Pickering, where he lives, as well as the parliamentary secretary to the minister of national defense.
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