Rents, Patronage, and Defection: State-building and Insurgency in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has been one of the most protracted conflicts modern era, but theories of civil war onset fail to explain the war’s causes or its patterns of violence. This thesis examines the origins of the post-2001 period of the conflict through the perspective of state formation; although many civil...

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Main Author: Gopal, Anand
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D81G0RWX