From stalemate to settlement lessons for Afghanistan from historical insurgencies that have been resolved through negotiation
"In June 2013, the Afghan Taliban opened a political office in Qatar to facilitate peace talks with the U.S. and Afghan governments. Negotiations between the United States and the group that sheltered al-Qaeda would have been unthinkable 12 years ago, but the reality is that a negotiated settle...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- How to reach a negotiated settlement in counterinsurgency warfare
- Methods: getting to a master narrative
- The master narrative
- Sequences in the individual cases
- Extended example: Northern Ireland, 1969-1999
- Twelve additional cases of historical insurgency settled through negotiation
- Following the master narrative toward an end game in Afghanistan
- Conclusion
- Includes bibliographical references