Inside Afghanistan: Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption

ISBN-13: 9781138280151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 376 str.

Timor Sharan

Opis

This book argues that post-2001 Afghanistan is best understood in terms of political networks. It discusses how informal political networks, engaging in patronage, corruption and illegality, effectively constitute the state, overriding state-centric and system-centric approaches to state building. It considers how political networks evolved, explores how they manage to control key sectors of the economy including mining, banking and drugs, and examines how they affect elections and political processes in the legislature. The book concludes that although these political networks exacerbate criminality and violence, they are nevertheless a source of political stability.

O autorze

Timor Sharan is an Associate Fellow at IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science’s foreign policy think tank, London, U.K. He was formerly the International Crisis Group’s Policy Analyst for Afghanistan and worked as a Senior Civil Servant for the Afghan government. He completed his doctorate at the University of Exeter and his MPhil at the University of Cambridge, U.K.