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oapen-20.500.12657-300542024-03-25T09:51:43Z US Nation Building in Afghanistan Keane, Conor Political Science Afghanistan Bureaucracy United States Agency for International Development United States Department of State Washington D.C. thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US’s difficulties in the country that meant the battle was virtually lost before it even began. The main objective of the book is to deepen readers’ understanding of the impact of bureaucratic politics on nation-building in Afghanistan, focusing primarily on the Bush administration. It rejects the ‘rational actor’ model, according to which the US functions as a coherent, monolithic agent. Instead, internal divisions within the foreign policy bureaucracy are explored, to build up a picture of the internal tensions and contradictions that bedevilled US nation-building efforts. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-17 03:00:30 2020-04-01T12:43:38Z 2020-04-01T12:43:38Z 2016-11-01 book 650045 OCN: 946106091 9781472474841 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30054 eng application/pdf n/a 650045.pdf Taylor & Francis 103436 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781472474841 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103485 KU Round 2 619971 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US’s difficulties in the country that meant the battle was virtually lost before it even began. The main objective of the book is to deepen readers’ understanding of the impact of bureaucratic politics on nation-building in Afghanistan, focusing primarily on the Bush administration. It rejects the ‘rational actor’ model, according to which the US functions as a coherent, monolithic agent. Instead, internal divisions within the foreign policy bureaucracy are explored, to build up a picture of the internal tensions and contradictions that bedevilled US nation-building efforts.
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