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"Mr. Rubin is excellent in sketching the peculiarities of Afghan history....[His] thesis, which seems to me plausible, is that in preserving its independence during the imperial era, Afghanistan also preserved a traditionalist tribal society that might have otherwise been modified by centralizing colonial government."Rubin, Barnett R. is the author of 'Fragmentation of Afghanistan State Formation and Collapse in the International System', published 2002 under ISBN 9780300095197 and ISBN 0300095198.
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