{"product_id":"9781316482049","title":"Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan","description":"Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, Timothy Nunan forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the front lines of the Cold War. Nunan argues that Afghanistan functioned as a laboratory for the future of the Third World nation-state. If, in the 1960s, Soviets, Americans, and Germans sought to make a territorial national economy for Afghanistan, later, under military occupation, Soviet nation-builders, French and Swedish humanitarians, and Pakistani-supported guerrillas fought a transnational civil war over Afghan statehood. Covering the entire period from the Cold War to Taliban rule, Humanitarian Invasion signals the beginning of a new stage in the writing of international history.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153385963760,"sku":"9781316482049","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316482049_p0.jpg?v=1763706726","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316482049","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}