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Nation-building unraveled? : aid, peace and justice in Afghanistan / edited by Antonio Donini, Norah Niland, and Karin Wermester.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Donini, Antonio.
Niland, Norah, 1952-
Wermester, Karin.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Humanitarian assistance--Afghanistan.
Humanitarian assistance.
International relief--Afghanistan.
International relief.
Human rights--Afghanistan.
Human rights.
Afghanistan--Politics and government--2001-.
Afghanistan.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 p.)
Place of Publication:
Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2004.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The prevailing wisdom about post-conflict reconstruction is centered on the notion of nation-building. In the globalized post-September 11th world, can military might and technological solutions foster stability by enforcing democracy from the outside?
Contents:
Afghanistan, war, aid, and international order / Nicholas Stockton
The politics of peacebuilding: year one: from Bonn to Kabul / J. Alexander Thier
Justice postponed: the marginalization of human rights / Norah Niland
The struggle for hearts and minds: the military, aid, and the media / Kate Clark
Afghan women on the margins of the Twenty-first Century / Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam
Principles, politics, and pragmatism in the international response to the Afghan crisis / Antonio Donini
The dilemma of humanitarianism in the post-Taliban transition / Alexander Costy
Political projects: reform, aid, and the state in Afghanistan / Nicholas Leader and Mohammad Hanif Atmar
Old woods, new paths, and diverging choices for NGOs / Paul O'Brien
Aid, peace and justice in a reordered world / Bruce D. Jones.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-56549-246-3
OCLC:
191037030

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