The Taliban

by Noah Berlatsky (Editor)

Overview

Editor Noah Berlatsky has carefully and thoughtfully compiled a collection of opposing viewpoints on the Taliban. Reading more than one opinion on this highly-controversial topic will help your readers think critically and seek balanced world views. Across four chapters, readers will evaluate who the Taliban are, how the United States should deal with the Taliban, what its relationship with Pakistan is, and what the Taliban's relationships are with other nations. Essay sources include Barack Obama, Kimberly Kagan, Husain Haqqani, and Pratap Chatterjee.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780737752397
Publisher:	Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Publication date:	02/22/2011
Series:	Opposing Viewpoints Series
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

Editorial Reviews

Review: The Taliban "As always in the Opposing Viewpoints series, there are voices from many sides of the debate."—Booklist, April 2002

From the Publisher

Gr 8 Up—This volume centers around four main questions: "Who Are the Taliban?"; "How Should the United States Deal with the Taliban?"; "What Is the Taliban's Relationship with Pakistan?"; and "What Is the Taliban's Relationship with Other Nations?" It is within this framework that key leaders and experts such as Barack Obama, Peter Bergen, and Dmitry Shlapentokh explore issues from America's transitional military strategy to how the U.S. economic crisis has forced Russia and China into an uneasy alliance against the Taliban. Each chapter contains a brief preface and is packed with a diversity of nuanced arguments concerning Pakistan, shaky economics, the Afghan drug trade, and shifting geopolitics. The volume includes a handful of sidebars and charts and concludes with the contact information for related organizations such as the Afghanistan Relief Organization and the U.S.-Afghanistan Women's Council. With fresh, varied perspectives, this book equips students with the critical-thinking skills necessary in a world of ever-increasing partisan extremism.—Brian Odom, Pelham Public Library, AL

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