Olivier Roy is Research Director in the Humanities & Social Sciences at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and has been a consultant with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1984. He undertook several journeys in Afghanistan during the Mujahideen resistance to the Soviet invasion of 1979 and then embarked on numerous trips to the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics, notably Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. He was Special Representative of the Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Tajikistan from 1993 to 1994 and headed the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan in 1994. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 1990); The Failure of Political Islam (Harvard University Press, 1994); The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations (I.B. Tauris, 2000), and L'islam mondialisé (Paris, Le Seuil, 2002).
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