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US nation building in Afghanistan / Conor Keane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keane, Conor, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-building--Afghanistan.
- Nation-building.
- Postwar reconstruction--Government policy--United States.
- Postwar reconstruction.
- Postwar reconstruction--Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan--Foreign relations.
- Afghanistan.
- United States--Foreign relations--Decision making.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Afghanistan.
- Genre:
- Electronic resource.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) : digital file(s).
- Other Title:
- U.S. nation building in Afghanistan
- United States nation building in Afghanistan
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon. ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY
- Description based on e-publication, viewed on May 11, 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9781317003182
- 1317003187
- 9781317003199
- 1317003195
- 9781315548623
- 1315548623
- 9780815396260
- 0815396260
- OCLC:
- 946106091
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