TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nojumi, Neamatollah.  
TI  - The rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: mass mobilization, civil war, and the future of the region / 
SN  - 0312295847 (pbk.)  
AV  - DS371.2  .N65 2002 
PY  - 2002///.
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave
KW  - Taliban.
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1973-1989.
N1  - Includes bibliographical reference and index.; Chronology of events -- Historical background -- The theory of mass mobilization -- Traditional political system -- The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan -- The phenomena of civil war in Afghanistan -- Zonal division of Afghanistan -- The Afghan mujahideen and mass mobilization -- The first phase of civil war -- The formation of a third movement -- Missing the only chance -- The rise of the Taliban -- The source of Taliban forces in Afghanistan -- Taliban tactics and strategies -- The political ideology of the Taliban -- The Taliban advance toward Mazar-e-Sharif -- The road into the future -- Afghanistan in the international system -- Epilogue: the Afghan connection to September 11.
ER  -