Failed states and foreign military intervention : the Afghanistan imbroglio / Sonali Huria.

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“February 2009.”

Includes bibliographic citations.

Summary: “Afghan and international actors, involved in re-construction efforts must be cognizant of the fact that any hope for a successful regeneration of Afghanistan’s governance structures will depend on an integration of its indigenous systems with western liberal, democratic institutions. According to Coyne, “attempts to reconstruct weak and failed countries suffer from a nirvana fallacy, [since they] overlook the possibility that indigenous governance mechanisms may evolve that are more effective than those imposed by military occupiers.” (p. 7)