The decline and fall of republican Afghanistan

• Verfasst von: Jamal, Ahmad Shuja [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Maley, William [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The decline and fall of republican Afghanistan
• Verf.angabe: Ahmad Shuja Jamal, William Maley
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: Hurst & Company
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-775631-7
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197694725.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: History
• Sach-SW: Asian history
• K10plus-PPN: 186880948X
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a collapse. To a significant degree, they were the result of early failings in institutional design, reflecting an American inclination to pursue short-term policy approaches that created perverse incentives - thus interfering with the long-term objective of stability. This book exposes the true factors underpinning Kabul's fall.