The decade-long Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) does not usually figure into conventional narratives of precedents for humanitarian interventions. When the Kremlin opted to dispatch a “limited contingent” of tens of thousands of sold..
Timothy Nunan
Timothy Nunan is a Freigeist Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) as well as the editor and translator of Writings on War (Cambridge: Polity, 2011), a collection of Carl Schmitt’s writings on international law. He received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2013. At present, he is engaged in two projects: an edited translation of M.S. Andreev’s 1926 ethnography of Afghanistan; and a second book-length project examining the entanglement of the Cold War with the rise of Islamic sectarianism in the Middle East.
