Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

HIST 3866 - Afghan Wars


Examines the history of strategic rivalry in Afghanistan and the borderlands of Central, South, and West Asia. Topics include the geopolitical setting and premodern precedents of contemporary policy; Britain’s Afghan Wars and the Great Game of empire in Asia; the interests and influences of Pakistan, Iran, India, and China; the Soviet war of the 1980s and its consequences; and developments since 2001.

Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Critical skills: contextualization
  • Critical skills: historical thinking
  • Critical skills: strategic thinking
  • Criticial skills: reading for argument
  • Writing skills: argumentation


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