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Author Felbab-Brown, Vanda

Title Aspiration and ambivalence : strategies and realities of counterinsurgency and state building in Afghanistan / Vanda Felbab-Brown
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 358 pages)
Contents Bullets over Kabul's Broadway -- Washington's strategies in Afghanistan since 2001 -- Insurgency in the context of poor governance -- The myths of (non)governance in Afghanistan -- Power, impunity, and legitimacy in eastern and southern Afghanistan : learning to love mafia rule -- International efforts to fight corruption and improve governance -- Logistics and politics in northern Afghanistan -- The Afghan local police and other militias -- Counternarcotics and economic development policies -- Pakistan and the region -- Military transition and negotiations with the Taliban -- What, if anything, can still be done?
Summary Analyzes the U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan and offers detailed recommendations for dealing with the precarious situation leading up to the 2014 transition to Afghan control and beyond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-346) and index
Notes English
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Subject Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan
Internal security -- Afghanistan
Nation-building -- Afghanistan
Afghan War, 2001-2021.
HISTORY -- Military -- Afghan War (2001- )
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
Politics and government
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-2021
Subject Afghanistan
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023702528
ISBN 9780815724421
081572442X
1283741318
9781283741316