Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. 2016. A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity
| Author | Gavin Briggs |
| DOI | 10.1177/2347797019889282 |
| Published date | 01 April 2020 |
| Date | 01 April 2020 |
Book Reviews 135
Rizvi, H. A. (2000). Military, state and society in Pakistan. New York, NY: Palgrave
McMillian.
Syeda Sumaya Mehdi
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
E-mail: Mehdi.sumaya@gmail.com
Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. 2016. A Rock
Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity.
London: Hurst and Company. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1-849-04569-8
DOI: 10.1177/2347797019889282
Afghanistan’s evolving domestic and international situation remains of interest to
a host of regional states, including India, Pakistan, Iran, China and Russia. Kristian
Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh’s A Rock Between Hard Places:
Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity explores how those and other
regional states have positioned themselves towards Afghanistan as well as one
another. Throughout the book, Harpviken and Tadjbakhsh counter the ‘narrative
of victimhood’ surrounding Afghanistan and places the nation at the centre of an
inter-regional context, which is home to several regional powers. For those
transnational threats such as the Islamic State, it is Afghanistan’s relations with
Saudi Arabia and Iran, which will be of significance because ‘the direction these
two take in dealing with the phenomena will be decisive’ (Harpviken & Tadjbakhsh
2016, p.156). The security situation in Afghanistan has continued to worsen since
the end of...
Rizvi, H. A. (2000). Military, state and society in Pakistan. New York, NY: Palgrave
McMillian.
Syeda Sumaya Mehdi
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
E-mail: Mehdi.sumaya@gmail.com
Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. 2016. A Rock
Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity.
London: Hurst and Company. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1-849-04569-8
DOI: 10.1177/2347797019889282
Afghanistan’s evolving domestic and international situation remains of interest to
a host of regional states, including India, Pakistan, Iran, China and Russia. Kristian
Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh’s A Rock Between Hard Places:
Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity explores how those and other
regional states have positioned themselves towards Afghanistan as well as one
another. Throughout the book, Harpviken and Tadjbakhsh counter the ‘narrative
of victimhood’ surrounding Afghanistan and places the nation at the centre of an
inter-regional context, which is home to several regional powers. For those
transnational threats such as the Islamic State, it is Afghanistan’s relations with
Saudi Arabia and Iran, which will be of significance because ‘the direction these
two take in dealing with the phenomena will be decisive’ (Harpviken & Tadjbakhsh
2016, p.156). The security situation in Afghanistan has continued to worsen since
the end of...
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