Waiting for Dignity : : Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan /

Waiting for Dignity : : Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan / / Florian Weigand.

In August 2021, Taliban fighters entered the presidential palace in Kabul, ending twenty years of international efforts to build a democratic state in Afghanistan. Did the Taliban’s success rest on coercion and violence alone, or did they win the battle for public support through ideology and better...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Weigand, Florian,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 CONFLICT-TORN SPACES AND LEGITIMACY
  • 2 THE STATE
  • 3 STRONGMEN AND WARLORDS
  • 4 THE TALIBAN
  • 5 COMMUNITY AUTHORITIES
  • 6 WAITING FOR DIGNITY
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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