Empires of mud : war and warlords in Afghanistan / Antonio Giustozzi.
Material type: TextLanguage: Publication details: London : Hurst & Company, 2009.Description: x, 332 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781850650327
- Warlordism – Afghanistan – History
- Warlordism and international relations – Afghanistan
- Civil-military relations – Afghanistan
- Military government – Afghanistan
- Jihad – Afghanistan
- Afghanistan – Politics and government – 1989-2001
- Afghanistan – Politics and government – 2001-
- Qammaqami, Abbas
- Masud, Aḣmadshoḣ, 1953-2001
- JQ 1763.5 .C58 .G56 2009
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Includes bibliography—(p. 307-316).
Contents: Introduction: Warlords and states—Part One: Chapter 1. The roots of warlordism in Afghan society—2. Insurgent warlordism : the Jihad Movement (19789-1992)—3. Statecide in the making : government militias and warlordism (1980-19992)—4. 1992-2001 the apogee and crisis of the warlords—5. The explosion of peace in 2001 : bringing the warlords back in—Part Two: Models of warlordism: 6. Junbesh : origins and general characteristics—7. The role of leadership within Junbesh—8. Junbesh’s political dynamics—9. Junbesh’s political economy—10. Junbesh’s external dynamics—11. Junbesh’s military dynamics—12 Junbehes’ failed de-patrimnialisation—13. Efforts to legitimize Junbesh—14. The Emirate of Herat : origins and general characteristics—15. Ismail Khan’s leadership role—16 Political dynamics of Ismail Khan’s Emirate—17. The political economy of Ismail khan’s Emirate—18. The external dynamics of Ismail Khan’s Emirate—19. Military dynamics of the Emirate—20. Ismail Khan’s attempts at institutionalization—21. Ismail Khan’s efforts at ligitimisation—22 Between warlordism and guerilla war : Massud and Shura-I Nezar—Conclusion—Bibliography—Glossary—Index.
Warlords, namely charismatic military leaders who exploit the weakness of central authorities to seize control of and autonomously rule a sub-national area, have earned much notoriety in recent years on account of the excesses of civil wars in Liberia, Somalia and Afghanistan, but notwithstanding their bad reputation, warlords have often participated in state formation. In empires of mud Giustozzia analyses the dynamics of warlordism in Afghanistan within the context of such debates. The lion's share of the book consists of an depth analysis of the systems of rule—political, economic, military—which developed under Afghanistan's two foremost warlords, Ismail Khan and Abdul Rashid Dostum, both of whom still wield considerable power even after the intervention of allied forces in Afghanistan in 2001. their two systems are compared, highlighting convergences and divergences, in order to explain how warlords administer the areas that they control within so-called 'failed states', in the process challenging much of the received wisdom in school early and policy circles about warlordism. The author also discusses Ahmad Shah Massoud, whose 'system' incorporated elements of rule not dissimilar from that of the warlords—abstract.