The Dynamics of State Building in Afghanistan

US Policy Post 9/11

By: Ahmad Shah Azami

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Hardcover | 11 June 2026 | Edition Number 1

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230 Pages

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This book offers an all-encompassing, critical analysis of U.S.-led state-building in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021, focusing on the three central pillars of security and peacebuilding, democratization, and economic development and reconstruction.

The book demonstrates how Afghans navigated the promises of an international project that aspired to rebuild sustainable and successful state institutions, but which often provoked fractures and neglected legitimate local agency. Chapters highlight persistent shortcomings in Washingtonâs strategy, including miscalculations and policy failures that undermined local governance and long-term stability. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews, chapters provide original empirical insights by foregrounding Afghan voicesâ"perspectives often marginalized in existing scholarship. Comprehensive in approach, the book ultimately offers a conceptual contribution to the study of intervention and state building, situating Afghanistan within broader debates on war and foreign intervention, peace and stability, and state building and governance.

Revealing the inherent limitations of externally driven state-building in fragile and conflict contexts, this book will be of interest to researchers studying international relations, political science, South Asian and Middle East studies, and the U.S. War on Terror.

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