Abstract
Afghanistan has experienced state-building experiments in a very difficult sociopolitical context for over a decade. Economic, social, political, institutional and international factors have been interacting to help shape both polity and development outcomes. In particular, the involvement of large numbers of Western troops in Afghanistan after 2001, together with its position near the top of the Fragile States Index for more than a decade, have resulted in Afghanistan being a common study in state-building literature in general, and as a fragile state in particular. In some ways, that makes this case study almost the odd one out in this volume, with most of the rest being far less commonly explored contexts. Nonetheless, this chapter contributes new analysis about the origins of fragility in Afghanistan and assesses the international community’s re-engagement between 2001 and 2004 for development and state-building. It then looks at the role of development actors, development approaches and the aid modalities adopted.
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Bizhan, N. (2014). Re-engaging in a Fragmented Context: Development Approaches and Aid Modalities in Afghanistan, 2001–2004. In: Ware, A. (eds) Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347633_10
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