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Destined To Fail: Democracy and State Building Experiment In Post-Taliban afghanistan
[Paperback - 2023]
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Category: Politics
Additional Category: Central Asian History
Publisher: Oxford Pakistan | ISBN: 9780199408771 | Pages: 217
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The book contributes to the critical debate of exogenous state- and democracy-building experiments pursued in the aftermath of Western-led intervention in war-torn societies. The mistakes committed by the principal intervener, the United States, at the zero hour of state-building in Afghanistan could not be rectified in the following years of intervention. The multilateral state and democracy building project remained a unilateral decision-making project in practice, making it less cost-effective. Furthermore, a systematic inquiry into the processes establishes the rationale that political change is not the guarantor of social change in conflict-ridden societies like Afghanistan. Failure of the Afghanistan state- and democracy-building experiment clearly shows that the US cannot fix the world according to its own ideas.

Saira Aquil is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

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