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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

HIST 351. War in Afghanistan: Local and Global Perspectives


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 014486 Grading Basis GRD

This course offers critical perspectives on war in Afghanistan from historical and contemporary local and global perspectives. This course considers the philosophy of war and the Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-1919). The course then deals with U.S.-Afghan relations during the Cold War, and covers the post-9/11 period. In the context of war in Afghanistan, the course provides critical analyses of democracy, inequality, neoliberalism, power and race.