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The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strategic Alliances and Rivalries

Authors:Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines
ISBN:9789395474078
Binding:Hardcover
Year:2026
Pages:252
Size:16 x 24 x 2 cm
Weight:525 grams
Price:INR16951526.00

About the Book
The deadly attack on Kabul’s airport in August 2021 shocked the world and brought concentrated attention to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISK). New questions quickly arose: How did this ISIS affiliate become such a force in Afghanistan and Pakistan? And why is it now a lethal threat to the Taliban? Addressing these questions, Amira Jadoon and Andrew Mines draw on original data and newly available primary sources to dissect ISK’s inner workings and explain its rise and resilience.
About the Authors
Amira Jadoon

Amira Jadoon is assistant professor of political science at Clemson University and nonresident fellow at the Stimson Center. Previously, she was assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy at West Point.
Andrew Mines

Andrew Mines is a senior program specialist in the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace.
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“This beautifully written book offers a glimpse into how ordinary people in the Indian Himalaya experience economic, social, and political upheaval as an intensification of tension in the domain of everyday life. Simpson’s loving attention to the texture of intimate relationships, the waning and waxing intensity of atmospheric affects, and the multiplicity of somatic orientations to tension is ethnography at its finest.”
—Radhika Govindrajan, author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas
“This is ethnography at its finest, showcasing compelling theoretical arguments rooted in the thought and experiences of individuals whose lives Simpson explores in loving detail. The book is a major contribution to medical anthropology, South Asian studies and the study of aging, exemplifying what nuanced attention to materiality, relation, atmosphere, and affect can achieve.”
—Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
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