Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the … democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and Afghanistan are often considered together in analyses of state-building, and … multiple observers have explored the lessons of one for the other. Yet Iraq and Afghanistan are not the first cases of US …

This paper critically examines the shortcomings of post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan from 2001 to …, neglected the importance of customary authority structures, and treated Afghanistan as a blank slate for experimentation. Such … messy realities of fostering legitimate governance in fragile contexts. The hard-earned lessons from Afghanistan's recent …

This paper argues that attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have led to institutions that are not robust. The … of critical mass of people able and willing to maintain them when external support recedes. I contend that Afghanistan …

can precede and shape each context of reception. Linking to current developments in Afghanistan, we conclude that a …

-driven development programme in Afghanistan that created democratic village councils and funded small-scale development projects. Using a …

The paper examines the relationship between conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan, drawing upon a unique … data set, the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment household survey 2005. Afghanistan is severely underdeveloped and … poor. Conflict has persisted in vast swathes of the country for decades, so that Afghanistan may be more appropriately …

recipients looking at the case of Afghanistan during two periods: democratic regime 2002-2021, totalitarian regime 2021 onward. …

This working paper provides a summary of three systematic reviews on the effectiveness of aid in Afghanistan, Mali, and …