TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katzman,Kenneth
TI  - Afghanistan : : Politics, Elections, and Government Performance / 
SN  - 9781116265279
AV  - Pamphlet DS371.3. K389 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified] : 
PB  - Congressional Research Service, 
KW  - Taliban.
KW  - Al-Qaeda organization.
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-
KW  - Insurgency – Afghanistan
KW  - Internal security – Afghanistan
KW  - Afghanistan – Politics and government – 2001-
N1  - Cover title.
“August 17, 2009”
; “This report describes fundamental politics in Afghanistan including the post-Taliban transition and political landscape, government capacity and performance, and the 2009 elections”—back cover; “CRS report for Congress”
N2  - Summary: “The Afghan government’s limited writ and widespread official corruption are helping sustain a Taliban insurgency, and have fed pessimism about the Afghanistan stabilization effort. However, president Hamid Karzai has been able to confine ethnic disputes to political competition by engaging in compromises with major faction leaders, combined with occasional moves to weaken them. This strategy has enabled Karzai to focus on trying, with limited success to date, to win over members of his ethnic Pashtun…”—(page summary)
ER  -