For those who are thinking about devoting their research papers to a topic concerning the war in Afghanistan, I have added some additional resources under the session on Canada in Afghanistan. I will try to add resources for most if not all of our sessional topics, and these are being added as the course progresses. Being the first time this course is offered, the course website is still being developed week by week.
These are the resources added for the war in Afghanistan:
Anti-war Canada:
Afghanistan Elections:
- Annotated News Links: Afghan Elections 2009. By Maximilian Forte
- Demonstration Elections (Edward S. Herman)
- This Fraud Is On You: The 2009 Afghan Elections and the U.N. Cover Up
- Polling Day Fraud in the Afghan Elections (2009). By the Afghanistan Analysts Network
- How to Win an Afghan Election. By the Afghanistan Analysts Network
- Videos: Afghanistan Elections 2009 on Zero Anthropology TV
Books on Canada in Afghanistan (apart from those assigned):
- Canada in Afghanistan: The War So Far. By Peter Pigott. In Google Books.
- Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, the Taliban and the Battle That Saved Afghanistan. By Chris Wattie. Key Porter Books, 2008. ISBN 1554700841, 9781554700844.
- Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point In Canada’s Afghan Mission. By Lee Windsor, David Charters, and Brent Wilson. Wiley, 2010. ISBN 978-0470157619.
- Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants. Edited by Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren. Vintage Canada, 2008. ISBN 978-0307356314.
- Related: Guantanamo North: Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada. By Robert Diab.978-1552662793. Fernwood, 2009. ISBN
Documents and Papers:
- Afghanistan-Pakistan Panel, Center for a New American Security: Andrew Exum, Nathaniel Flick, Andrew Bacevich
- Afghanistan Public Opinion Poll: ABC News, 10 April 2009
- The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and OtherGlobal War on Terror Operations Since 9/11. By the U.S. Congressional Research Service
- At What Cost? Contingency Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Interim Report to Congress. Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, June 2009
- Casualties in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan by the Numbers: Measuring the Success of a War Gone to Hell. By Tom Engelhardt.
- Afghanistan: Politics, Government Formation and Performance. By Kenneth Katzman, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs. U.S. Congressional Research Service, June 26, 2009
- General Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan Assessment: leaked to the press
- Photos of U.S. mercenaries assigned to protect the U.S. Embassy in Kabul: partying
- Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Effectiveness of Aid as a Stabilization Tool in Afghanistan. Andrew Wilder, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University (ppt slides)
- Afghan Analyst Bibliography
Government of Canada:
- Canada’s Engagement in Afghanistan
- Dept. of Foreign Affairs & International Trade: Afghanistan
- Joint Task Force Afghanistan
- National Defence and the Canadian Forces
- Report: Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. Report of the Standing Committee on National Defence, June 2007 (pdf)
Militarizing Civilian Development Aid:
- Analysis: Rising threat to aid agencies in Afghanistan. William Dowell, Global Post, September 18, 2009
- Mixing Fighting and Food in Afghanistan. Kevin Baron, Stars and Stripes, September 15, 2009
- The Militarization of Afghan Aid: The most dangerous threat to “winning hearts and minds” in Afghanistan could be the counterinsurgency itself. Anna Husarska, Foreign Policy, July 31, 2009
- Civil Military Overview (U.S. plans for aligning civilian NGOs to military planning)
NATO, UN in Afghanistan:
- NATO’s role in Afghanistan
- NATO-ISAF: International Security Assistance Force
- NATO’s Master Narrative: cracked by Wikileaks
- UNAMA: United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
News sites focus on Afghanistan:
- BBC News: Afghanistan
- BBC News: UK troops in Afghanistan
- CBC News: Crossroads Afghanistan
- CTV News: Canada in Afghanistan
- Foreign Policy: The AfPak Channel
- Global Post: Life, Death, and the Taliban
- The Guardian (UK): Afghanistan news
- The New York Times’ Afghanistan news
- The Telegraph (UK): Afghanistan news
- The Times (UK): Afghanistan news
- Washington Post’s Afghanistan news
- Yahoo! Afghanistan News
Opinion Polls: Afghanistan
- ABC NEWS/BBC/ARD POLL – AFGHANISTAN: WHERE THINGS STAND, Feb. 9, 2009: “Support for U.S. Efforts Plummets Amid Afghanistan’s Ongoing Strife”
- Afghan Public Opinion and the Afghan War: A breakout of the data in the ABC News Poll, by the Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Afghanistan Public Opinion Survey:July 16-26, 2009. By the International Republican Institute
Opinion Polls: Citizens in the West against the war in Afghanistan
- U.S. Public divided on troop increase in Afghanistan: poll | Reuters
- Poll Shows US Isolationist Sentiment Growing | VOA News
- Poll: Americans pessimistic about Afghan war | Press TV
- 58% of Americans oppose the war in Afghanistan | CNN
- Most Americans see Afghan fight worth US bloodshed: poll
- Polling Analysis: Afghanistan 2009 Vs. Iraq 2007 | CBS
- CBS News Polls on Afghanistan
- 54% of Canadians oppose the war in Afghanistan (also here)
- Support for Afghan Mission Drops in UK, Canada
- Canada: CBC-Environics public issues poll, 2006
- Poll shows most Britons oppose war in Afghanistan | Reuters
- 64% of Britons believe the Afghan war is unwinnable
- UK: War in Afghanistan: Not in our name – 71% of Britons back IoS call for withdrawal of forces within a year
- UK: Most remain against Afghan war
- More than 60% of Germans want withdrawal from Afghanistan | Spiegel
- 56% of Australians do not support the war in Afghanistan
- Australia: War in Afghanistan splits the nation
Oxfam (UK) Reports on Afghanistan:
- The Cost of War: Afghan experiences of conflict, 1978-2009 – November 2009
- Caught in the Conflict: Civilians and the international security strategy in Afghanistan – April 2009
- Afghanistan: development and humanitarian priorities – January 2008
- Oxfam submission to UK government inquiry on Afghanistan – November 2007
- Afghanistan’s crisis is far from over – January 2002
Provincial Reconstruction Team:
The Taliban:
- The Taliban widen their presence in Afghanistan: International Council on Security and Development: see mapsthis one. for Afghanistan, in particular
- Embedded with the Taliban: An Interview with Anand Gopaul. Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch, September 3, 2009
- How We Lost the War We Won: A journey into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Nir Rosen, Rolling Stone, October 30, 2008
- Exclusive: Embedded with the Taliban. FRANCE 24 International News, September 12, 2008
- Global Post: Life, Death, and the Taliban
- Videos: from Zero Anthropology TV
- YouTube Channel
- Related: Col. Kurtz’s Anthropological Understanding
- Related: Talal Asad’s On Suicide Bombing, in Google Books
Women’s rights:
- Feminist Majority Foundation: Campaign for Afghan Women & Girls
- The Feminist Hawks. By Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times Magazine, August 19, 2009
- Why Is a Leading Feminist Organization Lending Its Name to Support Escalation in Afghanistan? By Sonali Kolhatkar and Mariam Rawi, AlterNet, July 8, 2009
- Pentagon Enlists Feminists for War Aims. By Tom Hayden, Huffington Post, July 18, 2009
- Bombs will kill women in Afghanistan. Rethink Afghanistan
- McChrystal Digs In, Afghan Women Say Get Out. Rethink Afghanistan
- Remember the Women? By Ann Jones, The Nation, October 21, 2009
- Finger-wagging won’t help Muslim women. By Geraldine Brooks, The Guardian, August 28, 2009
- Only Muslims can change their society: The US invasion of Afghanistan had nothing to do with its women – change in Islamic nations must come from within. By Asma Barlas, The Guardian, August 25, 2009
THE NEW IMPERIALISM 
Find detailed map of Afghanistan here ( http://www.mapsofworld.com/afghanistan/afghanistan-political-map.html ) Its cover Afghan states, cities and international boundary, nearby states.