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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
U.S. and Afghanistan on Security Negotiations: June 19 and June 22, and November 20, 2013
U.S. and Afghanistan on Security Negotiations: June 19 and June 22, and November 20, 2013
With the war in Afghanistan drawing to a close and U.S. troops set to leave at the end of 2014, American and Afghan officials worked together throughout 2013 to determine what relationship the two nations would have moving forward, particularly as it related to security. The United States made clear its desire to leave behind a stable Afghan government, which it believed would involve bringing the Taliban peacefully back into the country. Peace talks between Afghanistan and the Taliban stalled before they even started in June when Afghan President Hamid Karzai refused to send his negotiating ...
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