Maley, William2015-12-132015-12-131607-5889http://hdl.handle.net/1885/79714Afghanistan's current difficulties are in large measure the product of a troubled history and a troubled geographical location. These have combined to produce a debilitated state, open to meddling from a range of external powers, that has now experienced201010.1017/S18163831110001542015-12-11