The rule of law in Afghanistan : missing in inaction / edited by Whit Mason.
Material type:
- 9781107003194
- 9780521176682
- KNF2020. M37 2011
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KNF1572م 74 1351 مقررات و لوایح ستره محکمه / | KNF1572و 89 1369 دارالقضاء در افغانستان / | KNF1650 22س 1392 اصول محاکمات تجارتی / | KNF2020.M37 2011 The rule of law in Afghanistan : | KNF2050 1393 25هـ حقوق اساسی مؤسسات سیاسی / | KNF2050 37م 1395 حقوق اساسی جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان : | KNF2050.E454 2015 An introduction to the constitutional law of Afghanistan / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Contributors—Preface and acknowledgements—Introduction—Part I : the scope and nature of the problem (p. 13)—Part II : the context : where we started (p. 51)—Part III : the political economy of opium (p. 97)—Part IV : Afghan approaches to security and the rule of law (p. 147)—Part V : international interventions (p. 223)—Part VI : Kandahar (p. 299)—Part VII : conclusion (p. 317).
Summary: "How, despite the enormous investment of blood and treasure, has the West’s ten-year intervention left Afghanistan so lawless and insecure? The answer is more insidious than any conspiracy, for it begins with a profound lack of understanding of the rule of law, the very thing that most dramatically separates Western societies from the benighted ones in which they increasingly intervene. This volume of essays argues that the rule of law is not a set of institutions that can be exported lock, stock and barrel to lawless lands, but a state of affairs under which ordinary people and officials of the state itself feel it makes sense to act within the law. Where such a state of affairs is absent, as in Afghanistan today, brute force, not law, will continue to rule"—back cover.