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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828946903321

Autore

Felbab-Brown Vanda

Titolo

Aspiration and ambivalence : strategies and realities of counterinsurgency and state building in Afghanistan / / Vanda Felbab-Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-74131-8

0-8157-2442-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (640 p.)

Disciplina

320.9581

958.104/7

958.1047

Soggetti

Afghan War, 2001-

Afghanistan Politics and government 2001-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; 1 - Bullets over Kabul's Broadway; 2 - Washington's Strategies in Afghanistan since 2001; 3 - Insurgency in the Context of Poor Governance; 4 - The Myths of (Non)Governance in Afghanistan; 5 - Power, Impunity, and Legitimacy in Eastern and Southern Afghanistan: Learning to Love Mafia Rule; 6 - International Efforts to Fight Corruption and Improve Governance; 7 - Logistics and Politics in Northern Afghanistan; 8 - The Afghan Local Police and Other Militias; 9 - Counternarcotics and Economic Development Policies

10 - Pakistan and the Region11 - Military Transition and Negotiations with the Taliban; 12 - What, If Anything, can Still be Done?; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; Back Page

Sommario/riassunto

After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice by America and its allies, the Taliban still has not been defeated, and many Afghans believe that a civil war is coming.  Aspiration and Ambivalence analyzes the U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan and offers detailed recommendations for dealing with the precarious situation leading up to the 2014 transition to Afghan control and beyond. Vanda Felbab-



Brown argues that allied efforts in Afghanistan have put far too little emphasis on good governance, concentrating too much on short-term military goals to the detriment of