LEADER 04432nam 22005895 450 001 9910887801803321 005 20250807140303.0 010 $a9789819765997 010 $a9819765994 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-6599-7 035 $a(CKB)36213934900041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31855469 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31855469 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-6599-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936213934900041 100 $a20240923d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Afghan Patchwork State $ePolitical Ideology, Infrastructural Power, and the Critical Juncture of 1929 /$fby Ryan S. Brasher 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (222 pages) 225 1 $aPolitics of South Asia,$x2523-8353 311 08$a9789819765980 311 08$a9819765986 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Political Ideology in Afghanistan: The Modernist Alternative -- Chapter 3: Political Ideology in Afghanistan: Patrimonial Absolutism -- Chapter 4: 1929 as a Critical Juncture -- Chapter 5: Regime Perception of and Actions Toward Local Elites: Allies -- Chapter 6: Regime Perceptions of and Actions Toward Local Elites: Rivals -- Chapter 7: Long-Term Development of Infrastructural Power -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book provides a theoretically grounded and empirically fine-grained analysis of uneven state development in Afghanistan beginning in the early 20th Century. Based on archival research, the book shows that after Amanullah Shah?s abortive modernist authoritarian experiment and Habibullah Kalakani?s brief rule, a newly empowered Musahiban dynasty charted a patrimonial absolutist course. The new regime delegated considerable authority to traditional tribal areas in the southeastern and eastern part of the country, while pursuing a coercive strategy in other parts of the country that usurped traditional leadership at the regional and local levels. Previous explanations of the weakness of the Afghan state tend to emphasize structural determinants such as difficult geography, acephalous tribal organization, ethnic heterogeneity, as well as colonial interventions. Others have focused only on events after the Soviet or NATO interventions, pointing out faulty external decision-making, corrupt government officials and warlords, neighboring insurgent safe havens, or the international aid-fueled rentier economy. This book proposes an intermediate explanation for the patchwork nature of the Afghan state rooted in institutional choices made by a new ruling elite that took over in 1929. The year represents one critical juncture in Afghan history, where individual agency based on certain ideological preferences set in motion a path-dependent process that shaped its politics well into the latter half of the century. Ryan Brasher is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of History and Political Science at Simpson University in Redding California. His research focus is centered on ethnic identity, nationalism, political religion, and state-building in Central and South Asia. He has previously published on the construction of Tajik identity in Tajikistan and Afghanistan, on different manifestations of Political Islam in Afghanistan and Pakistan, on domestic determinants of Pakistan?s foreign policy toward its neighbors, the political attitudes of the Christian minority in Pakistan, as well as ethnic identity and assimilation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. 410 0$aPolitics of South Asia,$x2523-8353 606 $aComparative government 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aAsia$xPolitics and government 606 $aComparative Politics 606 $aPolitical History 606 $aAsian Politics 615 0$aComparative government. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aAsia$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aComparative Politics. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aAsian Politics. 676 $a320.3 700 $aBrasher$b Ryan S$01794470 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910887801803321 996 $aThe Afghan Patchwork State$94335147 997 $aUNINA