TALIBANLAND - Paradise Under the Shadow of Sabers in Afghanistan

Georgi Asatryan, Ph.D., social scientist, associate professor for Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Russia). His interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of social, political sciences, and international relations. Asatryan worked as an associate professor at Moscow State University (Russia) and a research fellow at the Russian Academy of Science (Russia). A member of the International Study Association (USA), American Political Science Association (USA), and the International Political Science Association (Canada), and expert with the Armenian Society of Fellowes (USA) and Russian International Affairs Council (Russia). Dr. Asatryan is the author of more than sixty academic papers. His articles, book reviews, notes, and essays were published in such journals, as International Affairs, International Studies Review, Sociology, Russia in Global Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Asian Studies Review, Contemporary South Asia, Iran and the Caucasus, Strategic Analysis, Intelligence and National Security, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Review of Political Economy, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The RUSI Journal, Rethinking History and others. Dr. Asatryan did private consulting on Economic and Political Risks in Central Asia and the Caucasus (2017-2020) and advised International Businesses on Political Risks and Economic Prospects in the region. Dr. Asatryan has been studying Afghanistan, the Taliban, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the policy of the Great Powers based on many field studies, and interviews with leading figures for decades.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART 1. Social Origins and the Taliban.- Chapter 2. Tribal Society.- Chapter 3. The Taliban Theory of Statehood.- Chapter 4. Evolution and Social Eternity.-  Part II. Terror and Freedom.- Chapter 5. ISIS and the Taliban.- Chapter. 6. The War on Terror and Afghanistan.- Chapter 7. The Breaking Storm.- Part III. World Affairs and Afghanistan.- Chapter 8. World Powers and Talibanland.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.