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US Nation-Building in Afghanistan
Nicholas Kitchen
2016
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Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominantexplanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflictsinside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistanby exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US’s difficultiesin the country that meant the battle was virtually lost before it even began. Themain objective of the book is to deepen readers’ understanding of the impact ofbureaucratic politics on nation-building in Afghanistan, focusing primarily on theBush administration. It rejects the ‘rational actor’ model, according to which theUS functions as a coherent, monolithic agent. Instead, internal divisions withinthe foreign policy bureaucracy are explored, to build up a picture of the internaltensions and contradictions that bedevilled US nation-building efforts. The bookalso contributes to the vexed issue of whether or not the US should engage innation-building at all, and if so under what conditions.
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Keywords
- Afghanistan
- Bureaucracy
- D.C.
- International Politics
- International relations
- KUnlatched
- Political Science
- Political Science / International Relations
- Politics
- Politics & government
- Politics & International Relations
- Society & Social Sciences
- United States Agency for International Development
- United States Department of State
- Washington
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