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Author : Raymond A. Millen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book AFGHANISTAN: RECONSTITUTING A COLLAPSED STATE. written by Raymond A. Millen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond A. Millen
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Raymond A. Millen and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LTC Millen examines warlordism as the principal impediment to Afghanistan's revival and offers a shift in strategy that addresses the war of ideas, the counternarcotics initiative, and the incorporation of the Afghan National Army into the provincial reconstruction teams. As LTC Millen observes, all the resources are in place; they simply need a shift in focus. He takes into account the historical, cultural, and economic factors that impede central authority and the reforms needed for modern states.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142891000X
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan: Reconstituting a Collapsed State written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sooner or later it seems, all great powers have found themselves in Afghanistan, and their experience is replete with bitter resistance, harsh conditions, and failure. In contrast to its predecessors, the United States came not as a conqueror, but as a liberator. Equally unprecedented, the United States seeks to reinstitute Afghanistan as a fully sovereign and functioning state. In this monograph, Lieutenant Colonel Raymond A. Millen examines warlordism as the principal impediment to Afghanistan's revival and offers a shift in strategy that addresses the war of ideas, the counternarcotics initiative, and the incorporation of the Afghan National Army into the provincial reconstruction teams. As Lieutenant Colonel Millen observes, all the resources are in place; they simply need a shift in focus. Lieutenant Colonel Millen takes into account the historical, cultural, and economic factors that impede central authority and the reforms needed for modern states. His problem-solving approach is insightful, pragmatic, and innovative.
Author : Raymond A. Millen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Raymond A. Millen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LTC Millen examines warlordism as the principal impediment to Afghanistan's and offers a shift in strategy that addresses the war of ideas, the counternarcotics initiative, and the incorporation of the Afghan National Army into the provinicial reconstruction teams. As LTC Millen observes, all the resources are in place; they simply need a shift in focus. He takes into account the historical, cultural, and economic factors that impede central authority and the reforms needed for modern states.
Author : Aaron Karp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134124147
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict written by Aaron Karp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation in warfare since the birth of the international system? Containing essays by leading international security scholars and military professionals, it explores the Fourth-Generation Warfare thesis and its implications for security planning in the twenty-first century. No longer confined to the fringes of armed conflict, guerrilla warfare and terrorism increasingly dominate world-wide military planning. For the first time since the Vietnam War ended, the problems of insurgency have leapt to the top of the international security agenda and virtually all countries are struggling to protect themselves against terrorist threats. Coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are bogged down by an insurgency, and are being forced to rely on old warfare tactics rather than modern technologies to destroy their adversaries. These theorists argue that irregular warfare—insurgencies and terrorism—has evolved over time and become progressively more sophisticated and difficult to defeat as it is not centred on high technology and state of the art weaponry. Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict will be of interest to students of international security, strategic studies and terrorism studies.
Author : David Shams
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435711017
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Democracy's Dilemma written by David Shams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Democracy's Dilemma, David Shams argues that Warlords' participation in Afghanistan's democracy has undermined the legitimacy of the state. Human rights violations, drug trade and institutional corruption constitute the perimeters of a triangle set by warlords within which the state falls short of the moral authority necessary to assert legitimacy. The dilemma that the state faces is this: On one hand, in order to survive it has to compromise with and appease the warlords; on the other, it struggles to eradicate drugs and uproot corruption. To achieve these objectives, the state has adopted paradoxical policies and taken contradictory measures simultaneously. This in turn, has resulted in ineffectual governance and the weakness of its status as a legitimate body in the eyes of the public.
Author : Tim Bird
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300154585
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Tim Bird and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines why the West has failed to achieve its objectives in Afghanistan, discussing the country's drug trade, political corruption, troubled relations with Pakistan, and harsh terrain, and the lessons about nation building that can be learned from the experience.
Author : Paul Rexton Kan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442247592
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Drug Trafficking and International Security written by Paul Rexton Kan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a certain security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. This book provides an understanding of how an array of threats to international security are exacerbated by drug trafficking.
Author : Djeyhoun Ostowar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000261484
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding written by Djeyhoun Ostowar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of actors in determining transitional justice in peacebuilding contexts. In recent decades, transitional justice mechanisms and processes have been introduced to a variety of settings, becoming widely regarded as essential elements in the ‘peacebuilding toolbox’. While it has increasingly been suggested that transitional justice is imposed by neo-imperial actors with little regard for the needs and cultures of local populations, evidence suggests that dismissing these policies as neo-imperial or neo-liberal impositions would result in grossly overlooking their dynamics, which involve a whole range of relevant actors operating at multiple levels. This book interrogates this theme through empirical analysis of three sites of peacebuilding that have seen extensive international involvement: Kosovo, East Timor and Afghanistan. It proposes a novel framework for analysing and approaching transitional justice in peacebuilding that disaggregates three broad sets of actors operating at different levels in relevant processes: external actors (international and regional levels), transitional justice promoters (local, national, international and transnational levels), and transitional regimes (national and local levels). The book argues that transitional justice in peacebuilding must be conceived of as actor-contingent and malleable due to the significance of agency and (inter)actions of key categories of actors throughout peacebuilding transition. This book will be of interest to students and practitioners of transitional justice, peacebuilding, law, and International Relations.
Author : Mark Moyar
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156014
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Question of Command written by Mark Moyar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moyar presents a wide-ranging history of counterinsurgency which draws on the historical record and interviews with hundreds of counterinsurgency veterans. He identifies the ten critical attributes of counterinsurgency leadership and reveals why these attributes have been more prevalent in some organizations than others.
Author : Daniel Byman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Going to War with the Allies You Have written by Daniel Byman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has long faced numerous problems when fighting insurgencies. Many of these concern the performance of local allies, who typically playa leading role in counterinsurgency. In this monograph, Dr. Daniel Hyman reviews the problems common to the security forces of local allies that have fought or may soon fight insurgencies linked to al-Qa'ida. He argues that these problems stem from deep structural weaknesses, such as the regime's perceived illegitimacy, poor civil-military relations, an undeveloped economy and discriminatory societies. Together, they greatly inhibit the allied armed forces' effectiveness in fighting the insurgents. Various U.S. programs designed to work with allied security forces, at best, can reduce some of these issues. To be effective, any program to assist allied counterinsurgency forces should factor in the allies' weaknesses.
Author : Graham F. Odell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000163326
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book State Reconstitution in China, Japan and East Africa written by Graham F. Odell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented through an investigation of Sengoku Japan and Republican China, this book proposes an innovative explanation of state formation that focuses on ideational and geographic factors. This study addresses the question; why are some collapsed states able to reconstitute themselves where others have not? Graham F. Odell employs two cases of successful state reconstitution – Republican China (1912-1949) and Sengoku Japan (1477-1615) – to derive a new theoretical framework around this question. These cases are distinct across several significant factors, making them ideal for a research design that seeks to formulate an original theoretical explanation for a phenomenon. Taken together, these two periods of Chinese and Japanese history are paradigmatic cases of state collapse and reconstitution and thus intrinsically compelling to the study of state formation. By developing a new theory of successful state reconstitution through emphasizing the roles of ideology, political symbolism and the geographical distribution of social power, this text provides an answer to the question that has not only scholarly and practical implications, but also a wide geographical applicability. This book will be key reading for scholars interested in matters of international politics, political science, and state formation, especially in East Asia.
Author : Christopher Paul
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833050788
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Victory Has a Thousand Fathers written by Christopher Paul and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of approaches to counterinsurgency from 30 recent resolved campaigns reveals that good COIN practices tend to "run in packs" and that the balance of selected good and bad practices perfectly predicts the outcome of a conflict.
Author : William Maley
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868409375
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Rescuing Afghanistan written by William Maley and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that only a long-term commitment from the wider world of a type that is rarely ever found, offers a reasonable prospect of rescuing Afghanistan from the dangers it continues to face.
Author : Whit Mason
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495526
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Rule of Law in Afghanistan written by Whit Mason and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Micheline Centlivres-Demont
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786739445
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Micheline Centlivres-Demont and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades Afghanistan has been plagued by crisis - from Soviet invasion in 1979 and Taliban rule to US invasion following the events of 9/11. Here the top specialists on Afghanistan, including Olivier Roy, Ahmad Rashid and Jonathan Goodhand, provide a unique overview of the evolution, causes and future of the Afghan crisis. Covering political and military events and examining the role of ethnic groups, religious and ideological factors and the role of the leaders and war chiefs of the period - from the anti-Soviet resistance to the presidency of Hamid Karzai - this book will prove essential reading to all interested in Afghanistan and the wider Middle East region. Examining recent events in the light of the country's economy, Afghan civil society, cultural heritage and state reconstruction attempts, this is a comprehensive and diverse look at a country whose recent history has been marked by internal conflicts and foreign intervention.
Author : Rosa Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476777888
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything written by Rosa Brooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and...wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war expands, so does the role of the US military. Military personnel now analyze computer code, train Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol for pirates. You name it, the military does it. In this “ambitious and astute” (The Washington Post) work, Rosa Brooks “provides a masterful analysis” (San Francisco Chronicle) of this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective—that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and married to an Army Green Beret. By turns a memoir, a work of journalism, a scholarly exploration of history, anthropology, and law, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything is an “illuminating” (The New York Times), “eloquent” (The Boston Globe), “courageous” (US News & World Report), and “essential” (The Dallas Morning News) examination of the role of the military today. Above all, it is a rallying cry, for Brooks issues an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear, we undermine both America’s founding values and the international rules and organizations that keep our world from sliding towards chaos.
