Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Glossary

Waiting for the end: Kabul, 4/92 (poem)
Setting the Stage
The Journal: April 1992
The View from UN Headquarters
Seven Years After: An Interview with Afghan Expatriates
Epilogue: After the Events of 11 September 2001

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

During his career with the UN, Phillip Corwin was an information officer, a speech writer for the secretary-general, and served in peace-keeping operations in Haiti, the Western Sahara, Afghanistan, and the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of Dubious Mandate: A Memoir of the UN in Bosnia, Summer 1995, and is also a widely published poet.

Reviews

Former U.N. official Phillip CorwinÆs Doomed in Afghanistan is a fast paced diary that reads like a thriller, recounting the bloody endgame to the ill-fated Soviet invasionàthe book closes with both an examination of U.N. documents relating to the conflict in Afghanistan and a post-Sept. 11 epilogue that brings the story up to the present moment.
*Washington Post Book World*

A fast-paced diary that reads like a thriller.
*Washington Post*

This articulate and engaging book conveys an important and highly topical message in a bold and uncompromising fashion. Corwin emerges as a shrewd observer of the dynamics of diplomacy, one who is honest in his criticism of the UN because of his commitment to the highest humanitarian goals.
*associate research scholar, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University*