TY  - GEN
AU  - Keane,Conor
TI  - US Nation Building in Afghanistan
SN  - 9781472474841
PY  - 2016///1101
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - International relations
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - United States Agency for International Development
KW  - United States Department of State
KW  - Washington
KW  - D.C
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US’s difficulties in the country that meant the battle was virtually lost before it even began. The main objective of the book is to deepen readers’ understanding of the impact of bureaucratic politics on nation-building in Afghanistan, focusing primarily on the Bush administration. It rejects the ‘rational actor’ model, according to which the US functions as a coherent, monolithic agent. Instead, internal divisions within the foreign policy bureaucracy are explored, to build up a picture of the internal tensions and contradictions that bedevilled US nation-building efforts
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30054/1/650045.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30054/1/650045.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30054/1/650045.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38100
ER  -