The Daunting Challenges of State Building in Afghanistan

Wednesday, May 10, 2007 - by Dr. Antonio Giustozzi, Researcher at Crisis States Research Centre, CSRC
 

Presented by: Dr. Antonio Giustozzi, Researcher at Crisis States Research Centre. Moderator/Discussant: Humayun Hamidzada, Coordinator, Centre for Policy and Human Development (CPHD). Date, Time and Place: Wednesday, May 10, 2007 from 10:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m. at CPHD.

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi is Research Fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre (LSE, London), where he runs a project on Afghanistan. He is author of 'War, politics and society in Afghanistan, 1978-1992' (Georgetown University Press, 2000), and of the forthcoming 'Kuran, Kalashnikov and laptop: the Neo-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, 2002-2007' (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Students and lecturers of Kabul University and members of international community attending the lecture organized by CPHD

The fact that the Afghan state is subject to recurrent crises is evident. But what are the causes? Different interpretation stresses various aspects of the satuation from the meddling of unfriendly neighbors to the lack of internal resources, to the great heterogeneity of Afghan society. Dr. Giustozzi will critically review the different interpretations and re-assess them in the light of post-2001 developments in Afghanistan and recent research..

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