Aid Paradoxes in Afghanistan: Building and Undermining the State

by Nematullah Bizhan

The relationship between aid and state building is highly complex and the effects of aid on weak states depend on donors' interests, aid modalities and the recipient's pre-existing institutional and socio-political conditions. This book argues that, in the case of Afghanistan, the country inherited conditions that were not favourable for effective state building. Although some of the problems that emerged in the post-2001 state building process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367888866
• ISBN13: 9780367888862
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"