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Author Goodhand, Jonathan

Title Bandits, borderlands and opium wars : Afghan state-building viewed from the margins / Jonathan Goodhand
Published Copenhagen, Denmark : Danish Institute for International Studies, 2009

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Description 28 pages : digital, PDF file
Series DIIS working paper ; 2009:26
DIIS working paper ; 2009:26.
Summary This paper explores the linkages between the drugs economy, borderlands and 'post conflict' state-building in Afghanistan. It does this through a fine grained historical analysis of Sheghnan, a remote district on the Afghan-Tajik border in the north-east. The paper charts the opening and closing of the border, the movement of people, commodities and ideas across the border, the effects of changing political regimes, the role of resources and their effects on local governance, and the complex, multifaceted networks that span the border and are involved in the drugs trade. The paper argues that the drugs economy has been an important part of the story of borderland transformation in Sheghnan. Because of drugs, borderlands are no longer marginal, but have become a resource to be exploited by the centre. As such the paper argues that examining the frontier may throw light on processes of state formation, state collapse and 'post conflict' state-building. A focus on borderlands means taking seriously the 'politics of place' and examining the diffuse dynamics and localised projects that feed into and shape processes of state formation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-27)
Notes Title from PDF title screen (viewed June 2, 2010)
Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Subject Opium trade -- Economic aspects -- Afghanistan
Nation-building -- Afghanistan
Boundaries.
Nation-building.
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001521
Afghanistan -- Boundaries
Subject Afghanistan.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Dansk institut for internationale studier.
ISBN 9788776053543
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