TY - BOOK AU - 14-1-76 TI - AFGHANSTAN AFTER THE TALIBAN PY - 2007///; Honors Satellite Seminar KW - Political Science KW - International Relations KW - Middle East N2 - Author, Tamin Ansary, explores: How the Taliban came to power and who they were/are; The American military intervention and its consequences; The contending players on the current Afghan scene, which include warlords, drug lords, conservative clerics, Jihadist fundamentalists, exiled (and now returning) technocrats, old aristocracy, and American and other foreign interests; The political measures that were taken to reinvent Afghanistan after the Taliban - the Bonn Conference, the constitution, the elections, and more; The "reconstruction" efforts in Afghanistan and their consequences, expected and unexpected; Whether and why Afghanistan is slipping back into chaos ER -