The rule of law in Afghanistan : missing in inaction / edited by Whit Mason.
2011
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The rule of law in Afghanistan : missing in inaction / edited by Whit Mason.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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Introduction / Whit Mason
PART I : THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF THE PROBLEM: Approaching the rule of law / Martin Krygier
Deiokes and the Taliban : local governance, bottom-up state formation and the rule of law in counter-insurgency / David J. Kilcullen
PART II : THE CONTEXT : WHERE WE STARTED: The international community's failures in Afghanistan / Francesc Vendrell
The rule of law and the weight of politics : challenges and trajectories / William Maley
Human security and the rule of law : Afghanistan's experience / Shahmahmood Miakhel
PART III : THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OPIUM: The Afghan insurgency and organised crime / Gretchen Peters
Afghanistan's opium strategy alternatives : a moment for masterful inactivity? / Joel Hafvenstein
PART IV : AFGHAN APPROACHES TO SECURITY AND THE RULE OF LAW: Engaging traditional justice mechanisms in Afghanistan : state-building opportunity or dangerous liaison? / Susanne Schmeidl
Casualties of myopia / Michael E. Hartmann
Land conflict in Afghanistan / Colin Deschamps, Alan Roe
PART V : INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS: Exogenous state-building : the contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan / Astri Suhrke
Grasping the nettle : facilitating change or more of the same? / Barbara J. Stapleton
Lost in translation : legal transplants without consensus-based adaptation / Michael Hartmann, Agnieszka Klonowiecka-Milart
PART VI : KANDAHAR: No justice, no peace : Kandahar, 2005-2009 / Graeme Smith
Kandahar after the fall of the Taliban / Shafiullah Afghan
PART VII : CONCLUSION: Axioms and unknowns / Whit Mason.
PART I : THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF THE PROBLEM: Approaching the rule of law / Martin Krygier
Deiokes and the Taliban : local governance, bottom-up state formation and the rule of law in counter-insurgency / David J. Kilcullen
PART II : THE CONTEXT : WHERE WE STARTED: The international community's failures in Afghanistan / Francesc Vendrell
The rule of law and the weight of politics : challenges and trajectories / William Maley
Human security and the rule of law : Afghanistan's experience / Shahmahmood Miakhel
PART III : THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OPIUM: The Afghan insurgency and organised crime / Gretchen Peters
Afghanistan's opium strategy alternatives : a moment for masterful inactivity? / Joel Hafvenstein
PART IV : AFGHAN APPROACHES TO SECURITY AND THE RULE OF LAW: Engaging traditional justice mechanisms in Afghanistan : state-building opportunity or dangerous liaison? / Susanne Schmeidl
Casualties of myopia / Michael E. Hartmann
Land conflict in Afghanistan / Colin Deschamps, Alan Roe
PART V : INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS: Exogenous state-building : the contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan / Astri Suhrke
Grasping the nettle : facilitating change or more of the same? / Barbara J. Stapleton
Lost in translation : legal transplants without consensus-based adaptation / Michael Hartmann, Agnieszka Klonowiecka-Milart
PART VI : KANDAHAR: No justice, no peace : Kandahar, 2005-2009 / Graeme Smith
Kandahar after the fall of the Taliban / Shafiullah Afghan
PART VII : CONCLUSION: Axioms and unknowns / Whit Mason.
Summary
How, despite the enormous investment of blood and treasure, has the West's ten-year intervention left Afghanistan so lawless and insecure? The answer is more insidious than any conspiracy, for it begins with a profound lack of understanding of the rule of law, the very thing that most dramatically separates Western societies from the benighted ones in which they increasingly intervene. This volume of essays argues that the rule of law is not a set of institutions that can be exported lock, stock and barrel to lawless lands, but a state of affairs under which ordinary people and officials of the state itself feel it makes sense to act within the law. Where such a state of affairs is absent, as in Afghanistan today, brute force, not law, will continue to rule.
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9780511760082 ebook
9781107003194 (hardback)
9780521176682 (paperback)
9781107003194 (hardback)
9780521176682 (paperback)
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