Humanitarian invasion. Global development in Afghanistan during the Cold War

In 1979-1989, Afghanistan was not just the next site, on which the performance of the Cold War with the participation of the USSR and its enemies was played, but also a place where the issue of the attitude of various political forces towards the idea of ​​a post-colonial state was resolved. The Afghanistan, which was once clamped between the empires, turned out to be the field of the battle of two incompatible approaches to the problem of the sovereignty of developing countries: Soviet territorial authoritarianism and western post -state humanitarianism. So, one of the influential actors in Afghan events became humanitarian non -governmental organizations, whose principles and actions undermined the legitimacy of national borders. In the dispute of the mentioned concepts, Afghanistan played the role not so much the "cemetery of empires" as the cemetery of the idea of ​​the national state in the third world.
The work of a free university professor in Berlin Timothy Nunan is devoted to the history of the tragic interaction of Afghanistan with the outside world throughout the twentieth century. Her heroes were financial agents and trade representatives who came to Kabul from different countries, American hydrologists, Soviet oil workers and West German forestry specialists, Komsomol advisers and activists who helped solve the “female issue” in a Muslim country