03432oam 2200637 450 991026934900332120200513131818.09781315548623(ebook)1315548623(ebook)9781317003199(ebook)1317003195(ebook)9781472474858(ebook)1472474856(ebook)9781317003175(eBook)1317003179(eBook)9781317003182(ebook)1317003187(ebook)9781472474841(hardback)14724748489780815396260(paperback)0815396260(CKB)4100000003844726(EXLCZ)99410000000384472620190630h20162016 uy| 0engurc|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUS nation building in Afghanistan /Conor KeaneAbingdon, Oxon. ;New York, NY :Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,2016.1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) digital file(s)Print version (hardback): 9781472474841 1472474848 Print version (paperback): 9780815396260 0815396260 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction --2. Nation-building and the Afghan state --3. Bureaucratic politics and Nation-building --4. The US Foreign Policy Bureaucracy and Nation-building in Afghanistan --5. Security --6. Infrastructure Development --7. Counter-Narcotics, Law & Governance --8. The Failure of collaborative Mechanisms --9. Provincial Reconstruction teams: --10. Conclusion.Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US’s difficulties in the country that meant the battle was virtually lost before it even began. The main objective of the book is to deepen readers’ understanding of the impact of bureaucratic politics on nation-building in Afghanistan, focusing primarily on the Bush administration. It rejects the ‘rational actor’ model, according to which the US functions as a coherent, monolithic agent. Instead, internal divisions within the foreign policy bureaucracy are explored, to build up a picture of the internal tensions and contradictions that bedevilled US nation-building efforts.U.S. nation building in AfghanistanUnited States nation building in AfghanistanNation-buildingAfghanistanPostwar reconstructionGovernment policyUnited StatesPostwar reconstructionAfghanistanAfghanistanForeign relationsUnited StatesForeign relationsDecision makingUnited StatesForeign relationsAfghanistanElectronic resource.Nation-buildingPostwar reconstructionGovernment policyPostwar reconstruction958.10472327.7Keane Conor921364UkMaJRU9910269349003321US nation building in Afghanistan2066590UNINA