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Author Malejacq, Romain, author.

Title Warlord survival : the delusion of state building in Afghanistan / Romain Malejacq
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages)
Contents Warlords, states, and political orders -- The game of survival -- Ismail Khan, the armed notable of Western Afghanistan -- Dostum, the ethnic entrepreneur -- Massoud and Fahim: the mujahid and the violent entrepreneur
Summary "Explains how warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis warlord, Afghanistan, state building, state formation, survival
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2020)
Subject Warlordism -- Afghanistan -- History
Warlordism and international relations -- Afghanistan
Nation-building -- Afghanistan
Political culture -- Afghanistan
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
Nation-building
Political culture
Politics and government
Warlordism
Warlordism and international relations
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1989-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009716
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-2021
Subject Afghanistan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019014502
ISBN 9781501746437
150174643X
9781501746444
1501746448