1st Edition
Transition in Afghanistan Hope, Despair and the Limits of Statebuilding
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Map
1. Introduction
2. The unravelling of Afghanistan
Statebuilding and reconstruction
3. Statebuilding: challenges and pathologies
4. Political development: mass, elite and institutional dimensions
5. Reconstruction: a critical assessment
Democracy and elections
6. Democracy and legitimation: challenges in the reconstitution of political processes
7. Afghan elections: from the sublime to the ridiculous?
Law and Human Rights
8. The rule of law and the weight of politics: challenges and trajectories
9. Human rights in Afghanistan
War
10. Surviving in a war zone: the problem of civilian casualties
11. Pakistan-Afghanistan relations
12. US-Afghanistan relations
13. Talking to the Taliban
Conclusion
14. Alternative futures for Afghanistan
Index
Biography
William Maley is Professor of Diplomacy, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, The Australian National University
