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Afghanistan: Imperatives of Stability Misperceived

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Shayeq Qassem
Shayeq Qassem*
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Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies Australian National University
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Abstract

More than seven years have passed since the intervention of the international community in Afghanistan, yet the country has not only failed to achieve stability; it has actually experienced a downward trend on that account. The worsening situation in Afghanistan has occurred despite the fact that the Afghan government and its international partners have allocated unprecedented amounts of resources, increased their security forces and implemented socio-political and economic programs that they deemed were conducive to stability. Why and how this failure did come about? This article challenges some of the underlying assumptions for stability and the notion of political reconstruction that the international community and the Afghan government have implemented so far as being largely responsible for the gloomy state of affairs in that country.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 247 - 274
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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2009

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