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• Cover
• About this book
• About the authors
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Glossary
• Preface
• Foreword by William Maley
• Map
• Introduction: four years on
• Losing the war
• State building
• Corrupting the state
• Human rights
• Religion and state
• Walking the tightrope
• Political developments
• The way forward
• The international dimension
• 1. The mirage of peace
• Illusions of peace
• ‘Liberation’
• Raising the stakes
• Bombing-in a peace
• Losing hearts and minds
• New beginnings?
• ‘Failure is not an option’
• 2. Identity and society
• New values and old
• Rooted in Islam
• Identity and others
• Civil society?
• Making decisions, being represented
• War and social change
• Ethnicity
• Closing ranks
• Managing the world beyond
• Dreaming a past
• 3. Ideology and difference
• Confronting the Taliban
• The UN and the Strategic Framework for Afghanistan
• An alien way of looking at the world
• Could it have been different?
• The legacy of confrontation
• 4. One size fits all – Afghanistan in the new world order
• Reasons for war
• Early courtship
• Changing attitudes
• Isolating the Taliban
• Aid, rights and the US project
• Stitching up a country
• Human rights
• NGOs – wanting it both ways
• Failing the Afghans
• 5. The makings of a narco state?
• Seeding recovery
• Or corrupting the state?
• Transitional attitudes
• Agency responses
• Double standards – or caught in a bind?
• 6. State
• State and nation
• A short history
• The Taliban state
• Aid and the state
• The UN and the failed state model
• The legacy of centralization
• 7. Bonn and beyond, part I: the political transition
• Inauspicious beginnings
• Imagining a state
• The political transition
• Building state failure
• Enduring security?
• 8. Bonn and beyond, part II: the governance transition
• The state: who is in control?
• International failure
• Letting the Afghans down
• 9. Concluding thoughts
• Who’s who
• Parties
• An Afghan chronology
• Further reading
• References
• Index