Understanding control and influence : what opium poppy and tax reveal about the writ of the Afghan state / David Mansfield ; editor Jill Suzanne Kornestsky and Matthew Longmore.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Kabul, Afghanistan : Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), ©2017.Description: viii, 57 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9789936628762
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Pamphlet HV5840. A23.
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Contents:
Contents: About the authors—About the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit—Foreword—Acknowledgements—Executive summary—1. Control and influence : what does it mean and how is it measured?—2. Opium poppy cultivation : what does it tell us about state influence?—3. Tax : what does it tell us about insurgent influence?—4. A better way of measuring the influence of the state’s in Afghanistan?—5. Conclusion—Bibliography—Request for feedback—Tables—Boxes—Figures.
Summary: Summary: “There are a number of organisations that have sought to map government control in Afghanistan. however, given the frequency it is cited in the media and official reports, this paper offers a critique of the current way that North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) and US forces in Afghanistan (USFOR-A) measure government influence and control in Afghanistan. It describes the limits of the current approach within the confines of what is currently known about the methodology. It shows that the concept of state or insurgent “control” over a population or area jars not only with historical…”—(page 1).
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“August 2017”.
“Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit”—at head of title.
“AREU research for a better Afghanistan ; 15 years of high-quality research”—cover page.
“European Union”—cover page.

“Includes bibliography”—(pages 50-54).

Contents: About the authors—About the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit—Foreword—Acknowledgements—Executive summary—1. Control and influence : what does it mean and how is it measured?—2. Opium poppy cultivation : what does it tell us about state influence?—3. Tax : what does it tell us about insurgent influence?—4. A better way of measuring the influence of the state’s in Afghanistan?—5. Conclusion—Bibliography—Request for feedback—Tables—Boxes—Figures.

Summary: “There are a number of organisations that have sought to map government control in Afghanistan. however, given the frequency it is cited in the media and official reports, this paper offers a critique of the current way that North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) and US forces in Afghanistan (USFOR-A) measure government influence and control in Afghanistan. It describes the limits of the current approach within the confines of what is currently known about the methodology. It shows that the concept of state or insurgent “control” over a population or area jars not only with historical…”—(page 1).

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