Timor Sharan

Inside Afghanistan

Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book maps out how political networks and centres of power, engaged in patronage, corruption, and illegality, effectively constituted the Afghan state, often with the complicity of the U.S.-led military intervention.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781138280151
• ISBN-10: 1138280151
• Artikelnr.: 60017921

Autorenporträt

Timor Sharan is an Associate Fellow at IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science's foreign policy think tank, London, U.K. He was formerly the International Crisis Group's Policy Analyst for Afghanistan and worked as a Senior Civil Servant for the Afghan government. He completed his doctorate at the University of Exeter and his MPhil at the University of Cambridge, U.K.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Political networks and the state: An analytical framework
Chapter 3: The origins and evolution of political networks: Factionalism,
violence, and political settlements
Chapter 4: The Bonn experiment and a flawed foundation: Re-assembling and
re-constituting the Afghan state (2001-2004)
Chapter 5: Consolidating a political "Empire of Mud" (2004- 2014)
Chapter 6: The National Unity Government: Political order disruption and
strains
Chapter 7: Elections for sale: Manipulating identities and bargaining
Chapter 8: Parliament as a grand marketplace: Alliance-building, auctions,
and access
Chapter 9: International money as a "weapons system", rent, and corruption
Chapter 10: The U.S.A military exit and a spectacular collapse