@article{ref1,
title="Deteriorating proximity between liberal peacebuilding and counterinsurgency: warlordism and corruption in Afghanistan",
journal="Interventions: International journal of postcolonial studies",
year="2019",
author="Ozdemir, Emrah",
volume="21",
number="2",
pages="188-218",
abstract="This essay aims at a critical analysis of liberal statebuilding efforts in Afghanistan as a counterinsurgency strategy. It interrogates the consequences of recent statebuilding policies of the counterinsurgency campaign in reproducing and perpetuating, rather than ameliorating, unequal sociopolitical relations in Afghanistan. Since statebuilding is a very broad area to analyze in a single article, this essay focuses on warlordism and corruption as two important issues that illustrate the failure of statebuilding efforts as a strategy of counterinsurgency. The biggest criticism posed by the research is the ignorance of local people's needs and expectations due to the hubris and arrogance of western interveners vis-à-vis their own technological and cognitive &quot;superiority.&quot; Thus, this essay has a local population-based approach which enables that ignored local population to explain their perspectives and evaluate efforts in the country.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1369-801X",
doi="10.1080/1369801X.2018.1487321",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1487321"
}