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OverviewInfluential fundraising groups and senators in the US made enormous efforts in the First Afghan War to present the Mujahedeen as ‘freedom fighters’ – even while the CIA secretly armed them with surface to air missiles and other weapons. A mass propaganda effort was launched, aimed at portraying parts of Afghanistan as victims of communist aggression. As we know now, many of those groups that were armed became the seedbeds for organisations like Al-Qaeda. Dr Jacqueline Fitzgibbon, through a forensic investigation of the American PR of the period, argues that this militarised and fractured Afghan society for a generation – partly resulting in the mess today. This book will look specifically at the American efforts to suppress any reports which showed these forces as anti-western or anti ‘American values’, and instead to portray the arming of partisan groups, often an extremely dangerous course of action, as an example of American values in action. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jacqueline Fitzgibbon (University College Cork, Ireland)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: I.B. Tauris Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780755637256ISBN 10: 0755637259 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 18 November 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction 1. US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan: History, Context and Carter 2. The Reagan Administration: Foreign Policy influences and the Importance of Propaganda 3. The Reagan Doctrine, Propaganda and the Afghan Conflict 4. Justifying Escalation in Afghanistan 5. The Afghan Media Project 6. 'The Road to Geneva and Beyond': The Superpower Summit, Public Diplomacy and the Afghan Conflict 7. The Beginning of the End: The Geneva Accords and National Reconciliation Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviews40 years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jacqueline Fitzgibbon demonstrates how the US response did not resolve conflict but added to it --- highlighting the folly today of the question, 'Do we get to win this time?' * Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, University of Birmingham, UK * Well written and rigorously researched ... Provides mature and penetrating analysis [that] deserves a place in the modern library of Afghanistan. * History Ireland * 40 years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jacqueline Fitzgibbon demonstrates how the US response did not resolve conflict but added to it --- highlighting the folly today of the question, 'Do we get to win this time?' * Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, University of Birmingham, UK * Author InformationJacqueline Fitzgibbon is Lecturer in History and Politics at University College Cork. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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