Afghanistan: Building a State to Keep the Peace

Building a Republican Peace

an impressive international apparatus dedicated to peacebuilding—that is, the attempt to build stable, legitimate, and effective states after war—has emerged.1 The arst sustained push in this direction came with the development of second-generation peacekeeping operations that both monitored cease-ares and attempted to help states emerging from civil wars develop the requisites for a stable pea...

american strategy "state - nation building" in afghanistan

the us after the september 11 (9/11) with obtaining world consensus created an unparalleled opportunity for herself that enabled has in addition to military presence and fighting the talliban and extremists groups, in political, economical, cultural and social activities too. the main goal of americans in this regard has been, to change the identity of afghan people in accordance to it's i...

The Art of Seeing Like a State: State-Building in Afghanistan, the Congo, and Beyond

This paper considers the implications of James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (1998) and The Art of Not Being Governed (2009) for state-building efforts in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In Seeing Like a State, Scott warns of the problems associated with top-down planning efforts to improve the human condition. In The Art of Not Being Governed, Scott discusses the ‘art...

At the Expense of the Country: Multi-level War Economy in Afghanistan and the Implication for Peace

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...