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02201aam a2200373 i 4500 001 B88A317600A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 160706s2016 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2016302231 020 $a 1849044805 020 $a 9781849044806 035 $a (OCoLC)947073163 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d DLC $d OCLCF $d UAB $d WVU $d VVC $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a a-af--- 050 00 $a JZ6300 G58 2016 100 1 $a Giustozzi, Antonio, $e author. 245 10 $a Missionaries of modernity : $b advisory missions and the struggle for hegemony in Afghanistan and beyond / $c Antonio Guistozzi, Artemy M. Kalinovsky ; with Paul Robinson, Bob Spencer and Alfia Sorokina. 264 1 $a London : $b C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., $c 2016. 300 $a ix, 496 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-463) and index. 505 0 $a An arrogant superpower? The case of military advisers -- State-builders in red: the civilian advisers -- From success to failure: training armies -- Police reformers: a never-ending apprenticeship? -- A jungle of civilian experts -- The beginnings: advisers in Afghanistan before 1978 -- The Soviet advisory missions -- The role of Soviet specialists in economic and technical assistance to Afghanistan -- Afghanistan after 2001 -- General conclusion: a blunted tool of hegemony. 520 $a "This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1940s onward, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and after 2001, but also deals with virtually every single advisory mission from the 1940s onward"--Book jacket. 650 0 $a Nation-building. 650 0 $a Military missions. 700 1 $a Kalinovsky, Artemy M., $e author. 700 1 $a Robinson, Paul, $e author. 700 1 $a Spencer, Bob, $e author. 700 1 $a Sorokina, Alfia, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304031902.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B88A317600A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search