The Afghan Conundrum: intervention, statebuilding and resistance

Abstract

1. Rethinking liberal peacebuilding, statebuilding and transition in Afghanistan: an introduction 2. Statebuilding in Afghanistan: challenges and pathologies 3. Statebuilding in Afghanistan: a contradictory engagement 4. Contested boundaries: NGOs and civil-military relations in Afghanistan 5. A tale of two retreats: Afghan transition in historical perspective 6. March towards democracy? The development of political movements in Afghanistan 7. The dynamics of informal political networks and statehood in post-2001 Afghanistan: a case study of the 2010-2011 Special Election Court crisis 8. Order, stability, and change in Afghanistan: from top-down to bottom-up state-making 9. The hollowing-out of the liberal peace project in Afghanistan: the case of security sector reform 10. Getting savages to fight barbarians: counterinsurgency and the remaking of Afghanistan 11. Nexuses of knowledge and power in Afghanistan: the rise and fall of the informal justice assemblage