US nation-building in Afghanistan / / Conor Keane.

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’...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) :; digital file(s)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of 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.