Publications, Press & Documents

 
 


Recommended Readings:

Anthropology/Sociology/Military Culture

  • Bernard, R. (2005). Research methods in anthropology: qualitative and quantitative approaches. AltaMira Press; 4 edition.
  • Barnett, A, & George, A. (2005). Case studies and theory development in the social. The MIT Pres
  • Borgatti, E & Freeman. (1999). UCINET 5 for Windows, Software for Social Network Analysis,
    Users Guide found at http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet6/Ucinet_Guide.doc
  • Keohane, R., King, G & Verba, S.(1994).Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Rowntree D. (2003). Statistics Without Tears: A Primer for Non-Mathematicians. Allyn & Bacon
  • Weller, S & Kimball, R. (1988). Systematic Data Collection (Qualitative Research Methods Series 10). California: Sage Publications.
  • Geertz, C. (1977). The Interpretation of Cultures. New York, NY: Basic Books.
  • Macionis, J. (2008). Society: The Basics 10 edition. Prentice Hall.
  • Marcus, G & Fischer, M. (1999). Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences.
  • Frese, P. & Harrell, M. (2003). Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Grossman, D. (2009). On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. New York: Back Bay Books.
  • Lucas G. (2009). Anthropologists in Arms: the Ethics of Military Anthropology. Lanham, Maryland: Alta Mira.
  • Stewart, R. (2007). The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq. Harvest Books
  • Wright, E. (2008). Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and The New Face of American War. Putnam Adult

General Middle East/ Islam

  • Coon, C. (1951). Caravan: The Story of the Middle East. New York: Henry Holt and Company. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34329085
  • Finkel, C. (2006). Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Basic Books.
  • Fromkin, D. ( 1990). Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. Avon; 1st edition
  • Matthews, R. (2003). The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches. New York: Routladge.
  • Ali, M. (1995). A Manuel of Hadith. Michigan: Routledge; 3 edition.
  • Armstrong, K. (1993). A History of God. New York: Ballantine Books.
  • Eickelman, D. (2005). Clifford Geertz and Islam, in Richard A. Shweder and Byron Good, Clifford Geertz by his Colleagues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Helfont, S. (2009). THE SUNNI DIVIDE: UNDERSTANDING POLITICS AND TERRORISM IN THEARABMIDDLE EAST. Philadelphia, PA:Foreign Policy Research Institute. http://www.fpri.org/pubs/Helfont.SunniDivide.pdf
  • Ibrahim, R. (2007). The Al Qaeda Reader. New York: Random House.
  • Lewis, B. (2002). What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. New York: Harper Perennial.
  • Lewis, B. (2003). The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. New York: Modern Library
  • Swarup, R. (2002). Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Book.

Afghanistan

  • Barnett, R. (1995). The search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state. . New Haven: Yale University Press
  • Bennett, J. (2002). Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Bergen, P. (2006). The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader. New York: Free Press.
  • Colls, S. (2004). Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Union invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin Press.
  • Dupree, L. (2002). Afghanistan. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Emadi, H. (2005). Culture and Customs of Afghanistan. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press.
  • Entezar, E. (2010). Afghanistan 101. Bloomington: Xilbris Corporation.
  • Ewans, M. (2002). Afghanistan: A Short History of its People and Politics. New York: Harper Perennial Press.
  • Goodson, L. (2001). Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban. Washington D.C.: University of Washington Press.
  • Grau, L. (1996). The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan. Darby: Diane Publishing Company.
  • Gress, M. & Grau L. (2002). The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  • Griffin, M. (2003). Reaping the Whirlwind: Afghanistan, Al Qa'ida and the Holy War. London: Pluto Press.
  • Hopkirk, P. (1992). The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. Tokyo: Kodansha International Press.
  • Hosseini, K. (2008). A Thousand Splendid Suns. Riverhead Trade; Reprint edition
  • Hosseini, K. (2004). The Kite Runner. Riverhead Trade; Later Printing edition
  • Jalal, A. (1994). The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jalali, A. & and Grau L. (2002). Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters. Osceola: Zenith Press.
  • Jalali, A. & Grau, L. & Rhodes, J. (2010). The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War. London: www.MilitaryBookshop.co.uk
  • Jones S. (2009). In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan. New York: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Kaplan R. (2001). Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Vintage; 1st Vintage Departures Ed edition
  • MacIntyre, B. (2005). The man who would be king: the first American in Afghanistan. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Margolis, E. (2002). War at the top of the world: the struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet. Routledge
  • Mortensen, G. (2009). Stones in to Schools. New York: Viking Adult; 1st edition:
  • Mortensen, G. (2007). Three Cups of Tea. New York: Penguin Books
  • Nasr, V. (2007). The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Norton, J. (2005). Global Studies: India and South Asia. 7 edition: McGraw-Hill/Duskin;
  • Nyrop, R. & Seekins, D. (1986). Afghanistan: A Country Study D A Pam, 550-65. Washington: American University Press
  • Peters, G. (2009). Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda. New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books
  • Rashid, A. (2001). Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale Nota Bene Books
  • Rubin, B. (2002). The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System, Second Edition. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press; 2 Sub edition
  • Rashid, A. (2008). Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Viking Adult, 1st
  • Rashid, A. (2002). Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. New York: Yale University Press; 1st Edition
  • Rashid , A. (2001). Taliban. New Haven, Ct: Yale Nota Bene Books
  • Scheuer, M. (2007). Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, Revised Edition. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books Inc
  • Stewart, R. (2006). The Places In Between. Fort Washington, PA: Harvest Books; 1st Edition
  • Yoo, J. (2001). War by Other Means. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition

Counterinsurgency

  • Cohen, E, Crane, C, Horvath, J, & Nagl, J. Principles, imperatives, and paradoxes of . Military Review,
  • Davis P. & Craign, K. (2009). Social Science for Counterterrorism Putting the Pieces Together. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corp; National Defense Research Institute http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG849.pdf
  • Galua, D. (1964). Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice. Connecticut: Praeger Security International Paperback.
  • Hoffer, E. (2002). The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. New York: Harper Collins.
  • Jones, Seth G. 2008. Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: RAND Counterinsurgency Study-Vol 4. RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG595.pdf
  • Jones, S. (2009). In the Graveyard of Empires, America’s War in Afghanistan. New York : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Kilcullen, D. (2009). The Accidential Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. Oxford University Press
  • Reeva, S, (2004). Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny. New York: Columbia University Press
  • Salmoni, B. & Holmes-Eber, P. (2008). Operational Culture for the Warfighter. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press
  • Sepp, K. (2005). Best Practices in Counterinsurgency. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milreview/sepp.pdf
  • Sitaraman, G. (2009, November). Counterinsurgency, the war on terror, and the laws of war. Virginia Law Review, 95(7),
    Retrieved from http://www.virginialawreview.org/articles.php?article=273
  • Smith, R. (2007). The Utility Force: The Art of War in the Modern World. New York: Knopf
  • The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, FM 3-24. 2007. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

State Formation and Development

  • Dodge, T. (2002). Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation-Building and a History Denied. New York : Columbia University Press.
  • Freedman, T. (2000). The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. New York: Anchor, Reprint Edition
  • Huntington, S. (2006). Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Jabar, F. (2002). Tribes & Power: Nationalism & Ethnicity in the Middle East. London: Saqi Books
  • Khoury, P. (1990). Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East. St. Martins Press
  • Migdal, J. (2001). State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another. Cambridge University Press
  • Migdal, J. (1988). Strong Societies and Weak States. Princeton University Press
  • Moore, B. (1993). Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Beacon Press
  • Prahalad, K. (2006). The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Wharton School Publishing.
  • Rae, H. (2002). State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples. Cambridge University Press
  • Skocpol, T. (1979). States and Revolutions. Cambridge University Press
  • United States Army. (2008). Stability Operations Field Manual (FM 3-07). Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas: TRADOC.
  • Zakaria, F. (2007). The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W.W. Norton.

Miscellaneous

  • Kalahroodi, A. (2005). A General Lexicon Of Military Technical Terms & Abbreviations For All Services.
  • Kottak, C. (2005). Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 5 edition
  • Seiple, C. (1996). The U.S. military/NGO relationship in humanitarian interventions. Peacekeeping Institute, Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College
  • Scheuer, M. (2004). Imperial Hubris. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books Inc.
  • Baba, M.& Hill, C. (2006). The Globalization of Anthropology. NAPA Bulletin, Number 25 Wiley-Blackwell
  • Sitaraman, G. (2003, Spring). The use and abuse of foreign law in constitutional interpretation. Harvard Journal,
    Retrieved from http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sitaraman_final.pdf
  • Angrosino, M. & Crane, J. (1992). Field Projects in Anthropology. Waveland Press; 3 Sub edition
  • Angrosino, M. (2002). Doing Cultural Anthropology. Waveland Press; 2 edition

 




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