TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Deteriorating proximity between liberal peacebuilding and counterinsurgency: warlordism and corruption in Afghanistan
JO  - Interventions: International journal of postcolonial studies
A1  - Ozdemir, Emrah
SP  - 188
EP  - 218
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 "superiority." 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1369-801X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1487321
ID  - ref1
ER  -