Political leadership in Afghanistan : identifying and assessing determining factors / Ahmad Idrees Rahmani.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation, ©2016.Description: 942 pages : color illustration, charts ; 30 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC330.3. R346 2016
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Contents: Preface—Abstract—Table of contents—Table of figures—Table of tables—Summary—Acknowledgements—Abbreviation—Chapter 1 : introduction—Chapter 2 : methodology—Chapter 3 : demographics—Chapter 4 : definition of leadership—Chapter 5 : characteristics of leaders—Chapter 6 : expectations from leaders—Chapter 7 : identity of political leaders—Chapter 8 : main findings & policy implications—Bibliography—Appendices.
Summary: Summary: “Since the fall of the royal system in 1973, Afghanistan has faced repeated failure—or at least crisis – of political leadership. Many Afghan believe that this is because other powerful countries use their economic and military power to install leaders of their own choice in Afghanistan. historical anecdotes support their theory. The British installed Shah Shuja, the Russians installed communist leaders, the Pakistanis endorsed Mujahideen…”—(page 14).
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“This document was submitted as a dissertation in January 2016 in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the doctoral degree in public policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. The faculty committee that supervised and approved the dissertation consisted of Terrence Kelly (Chair), Gery Ryan, and Thomas Szayna”—cover page.

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Contents: Preface—Abstract—Table of contents—Table of figures—Table of tables—Summary—Acknowledgements—Abbreviation—Chapter 1 : introduction—Chapter 2 : methodology—Chapter 3 : demographics—Chapter 4 : definition of leadership—Chapter 5 : characteristics of leaders—Chapter 6 : expectations from leaders—Chapter 7 : identity of political leaders—Chapter 8 : main findings & policy implications—Bibliography—Appendices.

Summary: “Since the fall of the royal system in 1973, Afghanistan has faced repeated failure—or at least crisis – of political leadership. Many Afghan believe that this is because other powerful countries use their economic and military power to install leaders of their own choice in Afghanistan. historical anecdotes support their theory. The British installed Shah Shuja, the Russians installed communist leaders, the Pakistanis endorsed Mujahideen…”—(page 14).

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