归属学者：

王冲

归属院系：

政治与公共管理学院

作者：

Zhengchen Wang ; Chong Wang

摘要：

During the early and middle Cold War, the policies enacted by U.S. administrations, mainly from Eisenhower to the early Carter administration, over Afghanistan aimed at restricting the increasingly growing Soviet Union and its influence in the Islamic country, to which financial aids had been primarily given, to ensure Afghanistan to be neutral and independent. At this stage, the Soviet Union was gaining prominence for it outcompeted the United States in helping the west Asian country, despite the intimate US-Afghanistan tie. That had laid the foundation for Soviet's invasion and manipulation over Afghanistan in the foreseeable future. Being a buffer state, Afghanistan yearned for casting off the shackles and regaining its neutrality. Shortly after the WWII, the outbreak of Cold War segmented the sphere into capitalist camp and socialist camp headed by the U.S. and Soviet Union respectively in an alignment way. Contentions between the two superpowers started off in South Asia and Middle East, in which Afghanistan had become a pivot for the game of "tit for tat". The U.S. prior policy between 1946 and 1979, which centered on offering financial supports to Afghanistan, was trying to vie with the Soviet community on the land. Along with military aids, the U.S. managed to consolidate its relation with Afghanistan by the advocacy of the independence and neutrality of the country. Unlike Pakistan and Iran, however, Afghanistan holding fast to neutral diplomatic policy wasn't able to join hands with the States or be among with its allies.

语种：

英文

ISBN：

978-981-11-7350-9

学科：

国际关系

提交日期：

2019-04-29

引用参考：

Zhengchen Wang;Chong Wang. A Geographical Game: An Analysis on U.S. Policy towards Afghanistan in Early and Middle Cold War[A]. Proceedings of 2018 International Conference on Language, Political Science, Education and Social Sciences (LPES 2018)（Advances in Education Sciences，VOL.17）[C]. ,2018:61-67.

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