{"pk":38098,"title":"The Taliban's Adaptation 2002-11: a Case of Evolution?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The Taliban faced overwhelmingly negative odds in 2002 when they launched their insurgency against the new government installed by American intervention in 2001. They adapted to the challenge in a number of ways. The article argues that some of this efforts to adapt can be described as evolution, although not all of them.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Taliban"},{"word":"Afghanistan"},{"word":"evolution"},{"word":"insurgency"},{"word":"History"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7114s0ct","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Antonio","middle_name":"","last_name":"Giustozzi","name_suffix":"","institution":"LSE","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-01-18T08:04:42-05:00","date_accepted":"2012-01-18T08:04:42-05:00","date_published":"2012-06-30T03:00:00-04:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38098/galley/28669/download/"}]}