Aspiration and ambivalence : strategies and realities of counterinsurgency and state building in Afghanistan /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Felbab-Brown, Vanda.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2013] ©2013
Description:	xi, 358 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan. Internal security -- Afghanistan. Nation-building -- Afghanistan. Counterinsurgency. Internal security. Nation-building. Afghanistan.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8952343

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Varying Form of Title:	Strategies and realities of counterinsurgency and state building in Afghanistan
Other authors / contributors:	Brookings Institution.
ISBN:	9780815724414 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0815724411 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-346) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
1. Bullets over Kabul's Broadway
2. Washington's Strategies in Afghanistan since 2001
3. Insurgency in the Context of Poor Governance
4. The Myths of (Non)Governance in Afghanistan
5. Power, Impunity, and Legitimacy in Eastern and Southern Afghanistan: Learning to Love Mafia Rule
6. International Efforts to Fight Corruption and Improve Governance
7. Logistics and Politics in Northern Afghanistan
8. The Afghan Local Police and Other Militias
9. Counternarcotics and Economic Development Policies
10. Pakistan and the Region
11. Military Transition and Negotiations with the Taliban
12. What, If Anything, Can Still Be Done?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Maps
Afghan Provinces and Major Cities
Southern Afghanistan
Eastern Afghanistan and Border with Pakistan
Northern Afghanistan
Afghanistan and the Region
Northern Region of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
Central Region of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border

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