Lessons of Russian in Afghanistan |
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Authors: | Anton Oleinik |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada |
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Abstract: | The experience of Soviet involvement in Afghanistan (1979–1989) is considered through the prism of institutional transfers. Afghanistan has a long history of attempts to implement Muslim, Soviet and Anglo-Saxon institutional designs. Most of them have failed. This failure can be attributed to the lack of ‘elective affinity’ between traditional and new institutions imported from more developed countries. It is argued that a careful examination of the degree of elective affinity must precede any attempt of institutional transfers. An analysis of Ph.D. dissertations defended by Afghan students at Soviet and Russian universities complements logical arguments and references to historical facts. |
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Keywords: | The Afghan war (1979– 1989) Afghanistan The Soviet Union Institutional transfers Pushtunwali Anthropology Institutional economics |
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