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Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan

Lessons from Development Experience

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  • © 2004

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  1. John D. Montgomery

    1. Harvard University, USA

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  2. Dennis A. Rondinelli

    1. Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • John D. Montgomery, Dennis A. Rondinelli
      Pages 1-7

  4. Toward a Stable Civil Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Toward the Rule of Law in Afghanistan: The Constitutive Process

      • Charles H. Norchi
      Pages 115-131

    3. Economic Growth and Development Policy in Afghanistan: Lessons from Experience in Developing Countries

      • Dennis A. Rondinelli
      Pages 132-155

    4. Ethnic Diversity and the Structure of Government

      • Milton J. Esman
      Pages 156-168

    5. Warlordism and Development in Afghanistan

      • Kamoludin N. Abdullaev
      Pages 169-187

    6. Health, Human Security, and Social Reconstruction in Afghanistan

      • Paula Gutlove, Gordon Thompson, Jacob Hale Russell
      Pages 188-209

  5. Regional Implications of Reconstruction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. The Afghan Neighborhood and Future Stability: A Regional Approach to Reconstruction and Development

      • Eden Naby, R. N. Frye
      Pages 213-224

    3. Reconstruction, Development, and Nation-Building: Prospects for Afghanistan

      • Dennis A. Rondinelli, John D. Montgomery
      Pages 225-236

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 237-245
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The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. This path breaking collection brings together top analysts to examine the goals and challenges facing efforts to reconstruct states that have collapsed into anarchy or have been defeated in war. Drawing on lessons from 50 years of past experience with post-conflict reconstruction and development around the world, the authors provide historical context, identify difficulties that can impede progress and recognize the realistic limitations of ambitions to create new states. They assess ongoing development plans in a country devastated by more than a century of conflict. Throughout, particular attention is paid to the interaction of the goals of external and domestic actors, highlighting the importance of understanding the internal social, economic and political environment of the society receiving assistance.

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"It is the unfortunate case that policymakers engaged in nation-building have time and again failed to tap existing knowledge about the countries that are the object of their efforts, and lessons from other nation-building exercises. Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan begins to correct this deficit by providing invaluable background to the problem of reconstructing one of the world's most troubled countries." - Francis Fukuyama, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University

"This is the best place to start for increasing understanding of the challenges facing those who would engage in 'nation building.' Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan provides dispassionate and richly informed analysis of the troubled attempts to reconstruct and restore a devastated land. While every country is unique, the lessons drawn from Afghanistan and other, previous, attempts at nation building clearly have import for Iraq and any other potential cases. And one lesson surely is that caution is wisdom." - Alex Inkeles, Stanford University

Editors and Affiliations

  • Harvard University, USA

    John D. Montgomery

  • Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    Dennis A. Rondinelli

About the editors

JOHN D. MONTGOMERY joined the Harvard University Faculty as Professor of International Studies in 1963. He became Director of the Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University of America, in 1991. He served as Editor of Policy Sciences, 1999-2001. As advisor to a variety of international development programs he has served in about 80 countries.

DENNIS A. RONDINELLI is a Professor at the University of North Carolina, USA. Prior to joining UNC he was Principal Research Scientist and Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of International Programs at the Research Triangle Institute. He has done research on a number of issues including international competitiveness issues, regional development strategy, private enterprise development in emerging market economies and on corporate environmental management and globalization.

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