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Título Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan
Autor Florian Weigand
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Páginas 384
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Columbia University Press
Fecha de publicación 2022-09-20
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780231200493 / 0231200498
Peso 1.01 libras (0.46 kg)
Dimensiones 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 pulgadas (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
Temas
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
Library of Congress subjects Taliban, Postwar reconstruction - Afghanistan
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2021059512
Dewey Decimal Code 320.958

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Florian Weigand is the codirector of the Centre on Armed Groups and a research associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Conflict and Transnational Crime: Borders, Bullets, and Business in Southeast Asia (2020) and coeditor of the Routledge Handbook of Smuggling (2021).

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New. In August 2021, Taliban fighters entered the presidential palace in Kabul, ending twenty years of international efforts to build a democratic state in Afghanistan. Did the Taliban's success rest on coercion and violence alone, or did they win the battle for public support through ideology and better services? Or did most people in the country not believe in the idea of the state at all, trusting only local elders and traditional councils? What is the source of legitimacy during armed conflict? In Waiting for Dignity, Florian Weigand investigates legitimacy and its absence in Afghanistan. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, he examines the perspectives of ordinary people in Afghanistan as well as those of rival claimants to authority: insurgents, warlords, members of parliament, security forces, and community leaders. By exploring how different types of authority attempted to legitimize their rule, Waiting for Dignity challenges common assumptions about how to build legitimacy, such as by… Leer más