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050	0	0	_aPamphlet DS371.3. _bK389 2009
100	1		_aKatzman, Kenneth.
245	1	0	_aAfghanistan : _bPolitics, Elections, and Government Performance / _cKenneth Katzman.
260			_a[Place of publication not identified] : _bCongressional Research Service, _c2009.
300			_a[4] unnumbered pages, 22 pages : _bmap ; _c23 cm.
500			_aCover title. “August 17, 2009”.
500			_a“This report describes fundamental politics in Afghanistan including the post-Taliban transition and political landscape, government capacity and performance, and the 2009 elections”—back cover.
500			_a“CRS report for Congress”.
504			_6Includes bibliographical references.
520			_aSummary: “The Afghan government’s limited writ and widespread official corruption are helping sustain a Taliban insurgency, and have fed pessimism about the Afghanistan stabilization effort. However, president Hamid Karzai has been able to confine ethnic disputes to political competition by engaging in compromises with major faction leaders, combined with occasional moves to weaken them. This strategy has enabled Karzai to focus on trying, with limited success to date, to win over members of his ethnic Pashtun…”—(page summary).
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600	2	0	_aTaliban.
600	2	0	_aAl-Qaeda organization.
650		0	_aAfghan War, 2001-.
650		0	_aInsurgency – Afghanistan.
650		0	_aInternal security – Afghanistan.
651		0	_aAfghanistan – Politics and government – 2001-.
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