Nation-Building Unraveled?
Aid, Peace and Justice in Afghanistan
Edited by Antonio Donini ,  Norah Niland ,  Karin Wermester
Hardback: 978 1 56549 181 6
Price: $69.95  

Paperback: 978 1 56549 180 9
Price: $25.95  

Publisher: Kumarian Press
November 2003 , 256 pp., 6" x 9"
*Uses Afghanistan as a case-study that can be applied internationally
*Contributors have direct political and human rights experience in the field

The prevailing wisdom about post-conflict reconstruction is centered on the notion of nation-building. In the globalized post-September 11th world, can military might and technological solutions foster stability by enforcing democracy from the outside?

Written by key practitioners and analysts involved in the Afghan crisis, Nation-Building Unraveled? explains how emerging international “ordering” practices affect the role and policy of international actors, such as United Nations agencies and international NGOs, their interaction with national authorities and local communities, and their ability to generate just and social outcomes.

Table of Contents:
1) Introduction - Antonio Donini, Norah Niland and Karin Wermester; 2) Afghanistan, War, Aid, and International Order- Nicholas Stockton

Part One: Governing the Periphery with Aid, Peace and Justice: From Fragmentation to Transition?; 3) The Politics of Peace-building: Year One: From Bonn to Kabul - J. Alexander Their; 4) Justice Postponed: The Marginalization of Human Rights in Afghanistan- Norah Niland; 5) The Struggle for Hearts and Minds: The Military, Aid and the Media- Kate Clark; 6) Afghan Women on the Margins of the Twenty-First Century- Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam

Part Two: Politics and Humanitarianism after September 11; 7) Principles, Politics and Pragmatism in the International Response to the Afghan Crisis- Antonio Donini; 8) The Dilemma of Humanitarianism in the Post-Taliban Transition-Alexander Costy; 9) Political Projects: Reform, Aid, and the State in Afghanistan-Nicholas Leader and Hanif Atmar; 10) Old Woods, New Paths and Diverging Choices for NGOs-Paul O’Brien; 11) Conclusion: Aid, Peace and Justice in a Re-Ordered World-Bruce D. Jones


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"Written with passion, with intellectual verve, and with stunning moral seriousness, the book is not only immensely important for its discussion of what actually happened in Afghanistan, and for its teasing out of the political and institutional implications of the Afghan experience for other 'humanitarian interventions' in the crisis zones, it is also a profound work about power in the twenty-first century."
- From the foreword by David Reiff
"A volume that speaks to its title. . .an excellent account which demonstrates the worth of subjecting foreign policy to rigorous challenge from the ground up."
- Christopher Freeman , International Affairs