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Author: Timor Sharan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9781138280151
ISBN 10: 1138280151
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 28 September 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Inside Afghanistan is an empirically rich and analytically nuanced study of the Afghan state. Going beyond simplistic representations of Afghanistan as a failed or fragile state, Timor Sharan's elegantly written book deploys the notion of political network to understand the ways in which different groups of actors have sought to control access to and influence the nature of the Afghan state. Based on in-depth fieldwork and several years of active engagement in policy making in Afghanistan, the book combines the best of ethnography and political science and will be of interest to students and policy makers of Afghanistan and other comparable situated contexts alike.' - Professor Magnus Marsden, Director of the Sussex Asia Centre and author of Beyond the Silk Roads: Trade, Mobility and Geopolitics across Eurasia . 'Timor Sharan has written the definitive account of why global efforts to build the Afghan state failed so badly. In this magnum opus, Sharan shows how external largesse coupled with corrupt domestic networks fused, causing the collapse of the state and the heartbreak that followed. This book masterfully combines original first-hand insights while building elegant theory. This is absolutely essential reading for policymakers and scholars who are interested in the role military and civilian assistance work in practice in Afghanistan and far beyond.' - Professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan . 'Social scientists have long pointed to states and markets as institutions shaping distributions of wealth and power. Timor Sharan's brilliant study of Afghanistan highlights the need also to recognise the critical role of networks. Theoretically sophisticated and richly textured, this pathbreaking book provides crucial insights not just into the collapse of the Afghan government in 2021, but into challenges of statebuilding more generally.' - Professor William Maley, Emeritus Professor of Diplomacy at the Australian National University, Foundation Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, and author of The Afghanistan Wars .
Author Information
Timor Sharan is an Associate Fellow at IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science’s foreign policy think tank, London, U.K. He was formerly the International Crisis Group’s Policy Analyst for Afghanistan and worked as a Senior Civil Servant for the Afghan government. He completed his doctorate at the University of Exeter and his MPhil at the University of Cambridge, U.K.
