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Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
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Description for Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan
Paperback. Explains the history of the warlord system in Afghani politics Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS4; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Warlords are charismatic military leaders who exploit weak central authorities in order to gain control of sub-national areas. Notwithstanding their bad reputation, warlords have often participated in state formation. In Empires of Mud Giustozzi analyses the dynamics of warlordism in Afghanistan within the context of such debates. He approaches this complex task by first analysing aspects of the Afghan environment that might have been conductive to the fragmentation of central authority and the emergence of warlords and then accounts for the emergence of warlordism in the 1980s and subsequently. He accounts for the phenomenon from the 1980s to today, considering ... Read more
Warlords are charismatic military leaders who exploit weak central authorities in order to gain control of sub-national areas. Notwithstanding their bad reputation, warlords have often participated in state formation. In Empires of Mud Giustozzi analyses the dynamics of warlordism in Afghanistan within the context of such debates. He approaches this complex task by first analysing aspects of the Afghan environment that might have been conductive to the fragmentation of central authority and the emergence of warlords and then accounts for the emergence of warlordism in the 1980s and subsequently. He accounts for the phenomenon from the 1980s to today, considering ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849042253
SKU
V9781849042253
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About Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
Antonio Giustozzi has spent more than a decade visiting, researching and writing on Afghanistan. He is a Research Fellow based at the Crisis States Research Centre at the LSE and author of Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban in Afghanistan, also available from Hurst.
Reviews for Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan
'Assesses the dynamics of warlordism... [It offers] a chilling prognosis for those who believe that the solution to stabilizing Afghanistan will come only from the top down - - by building strong central government institutions. Although creating a strong centralized state, assuming it ever happens, may help ensure long-term stability, it is not sufficient in Afghanistan. The current top-down state-building ... Read more