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    <title>Descent into chaos</title>
    <subTitle>the United States and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Rashid, Ahmed.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
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    <extent>lviii, 484 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Part I: 9/11 and war (Page-3), Part II: The Politics of the post 9/11 world (Page-109), Part III: The failure of nation building (Page-171), Descent into chaos (Page-265).</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Ahmed Rashid.</note>
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    <topic>Nation-building</topic>
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    <geographic>Afghanistan</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>2001-</temporal>
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    <geographic>Pakistan</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1988-</temporal>
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    <geographic>South Asia</geographic>
    <topic>Relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9780670019700 (alk. paper)</identifier>
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