Publication

Aug 2009

This paper critically examines the underlying assumptions behind the failing policies of the US and its partners in Afghanistan and explores alternative approaches to rescue Afghanistan's war-to-peace transition. According to the author, faulty assumptions on the part of key US government advisers, decision makers and many of their Afghan and Pakistani clients have contributed to the resurgence of the Taliban and a crisis of trust for the Karzai government and the internationally supported state-building process. The paper advocates discarding past policies and adopting a historically informed and culturally sensitive strategy aimed at fundamentally changing the governance system in Afghanistan.

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Author M Nazif Shahrani
Series CIPS Working Papers
Issue 2
Publisher Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Copyright © 2009 Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS)
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