The rule of law in Afghanistan : missing in inaction / edited by Whit Mason.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mason, Whit, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rule of law--Afghanistan.

Rule of law.

Justice, Administration of--Afghanistan.

Justice, Administration of.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Afghanistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

How, despite the enormous investment of blood and treasure, has the West's ten-year intervention left Afghanistan so lawless and insecure? The answer is more insidious than any conspiracy, for it begins with a profound lack of understanding of the rule of law, the very thing that most dramatically separates Western societies from the benighted ones in which they increasingly intervene. This volume of essays argues that the rule of law is not a set of institutions that can be exported lock, stock and barrel to lawless lands, but a state of affairs under which ordinary people and officials of the state itself feel it makes sense to act within the law. Where such a state of affairs is absent, as in Afghanistan today, brute force, not law, will continue to rule.

Contents:

Introduction / Whit Mason

PART I : THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF THE PROBLEM: Approaching the rule of law / Martin Krygier

Deiokes and the Taliban : local governance, bottom-up state formation and the rule of law in counter-insurgency / David J. Kilcullen

PART II : THE CONTEXT : WHERE WE STARTED: The international community's failures in Afghanistan / Francesc Vendrell

The rule of law and the weight of politics : challenges and trajectories / William Maley

Human security and the rule of law : Afghanistan's experience / Shahmahmood Miakhel

PART III : THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OPIUM: The Afghan insurgency and organised crime / Gretchen Peters

Afghanistan's opium strategy alternatives : a moment for masterful inactivity? / Joel Hafvenstein

PART IV : AFGHAN APPROACHES TO SECURITY AND THE RULE OF LAW: Engaging traditional justice mechanisms in Afghanistan : state-building opportunity or dangerous liaison? / Susanne Schmeidl

Casualties of myopia / Michael E. Hartmann

Land conflict in Afghanistan / Colin Deschamps, Alan Roe

PART V : INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS: Exogenous state-building : the contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan / Astri Suhrke

Grasping the nettle : facilitating change or more of the same? / Barbara J. Stapleton

Lost in translation : legal transplants without consensus-based adaptation / Michael Hartmann, Agnieszka Klonowiecka-Milart

PART VI : KANDAHAR: No justice, no peace : Kandahar, 2005-2009 / Graeme Smith

Kandahar after the fall of the Taliban / Shafiullah Afghan

PART VII : CONCLUSION: Axioms and unknowns / Whit Mason.

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ISBN:

9780511760082

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