Aspiration and Ambivalence Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan

Name: Aspiration and Ambivalence Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan
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ISBN: 9780815724414

ISBN-10: 0815724411

ISBN-13: 9780815724414

Edition: 2013

Authors: Vanda Felbab-Brown, Bruce Riedel, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Bruce Riedel

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This timely and authoritative book analyzes U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan and offers detailed policy recommendations for dealing with the precarious situation leading up to the 2014 transition to Afghan control, and beyond. After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice, the Taliban still has not been defeated and most Afghans believe that a civil war is coming. Vanda Felbab-Brown argues that the allied effort has put far too little emphasis on good governance and too much on short-term military goals. Brown combines thorough research and analysis with vivid personal accounts of her time spent in the war-torn nation--vignettes that illustrate the Afghan people's…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publication date: 11/21/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.30" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

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Foreword




Bullets over Kabul's Broadway



Washington's Strategies in Afghanistan since 2001



Insurgency in the Context of Poor Governance



The Myths of (Non)Governance in Afghanistan



Power, Impunity, and Legitimacy in Eastern and Southern Afghanistan: Learning to Love Mafia Rule



International Efforts to Fight Corruption and Improve Governance



Logistics and Politics in Northern Afghanistan



The Afghan Local Police and Other Militias



Counternarcotics and Economic Development Policies



Pakistan and the Region



Military Transition and Negotiations with the Taliban



What, If Anything, Can Still Be Done?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index


Maps


Afghan Provinces and Major Cities


Southern Afghanistan


Eastern Afghanistan and Border with Pakistan


Northern Afghanistan


Afghanistan and the Region


Northern Region of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border


Central Region of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border