Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan

Author/Contributor(s):	Malejacq, Romain
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	01/15/2020
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages...