The Afghanistan challenge : hard realities and strategic choices / edited by Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Charles C. Pentland.

Contents: 1. Introduction / Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Charles C. Pentland -- 2. Assessing the Afghanistan Compact: Is the International Community Defaulting on the Compact or Is the Compact the Wrong Approach? / Citha D. Maass -- 3. Changing Face of Warlordism in Afghanistan / Conrad Schetter and Rainer Glassner -- 4. Supporting the State, Depleting the State: Estranged State-Society Relations in Afghanistan / Florian P. Kuhn -- 5. NGO Myths, Realities, and Advocacy on the International Strategy in Afghanistan / Lara Olson and Andrea Charron -- 6. Building Stability in Afghanistan / Mihai P. Carp -- 7. Pakistan's Afghanistan Policy in the Shadow of India / Christian Wagner -- 8. Iran's Influence in Afghanistan / Janet Kursawe -- 9. International Commitment in Afghanistan: Failure or Strategy Change? A Strategic Assessment / Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Roland Kaestner -- 10. No Exit: Canada and the "War without End" in Afghanistan / Kim Richard Nossal -- 11. Afghanistan and the Limits of "Unlimited Solidarity"; A Farewell to Schicksalsgemeinschaft / David G. Haglund -- 12. Canada in Afghanistan: Strategic Perspectives / M.D. (Mike) Capstick -- 13. Construction of a War / Christoph Reuter -- 14. Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan: The Canadian Approach / David M. Law -- 15. Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan: The German Approach / Michael Brzoska.

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