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1 online resource (10 pages) : color map (digital, PDF file) |
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Policy brief / Center for a New American Security |
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Policy brief (Center for a New American Security)
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Summary |
America's strategy in Afghanistan is predicated on a belief that sustainable security there and in the broader region requires a sovereign Afghan state that meets its internal responsibilities to protect and serve its citizens and meets its obligations to the international community. Smart execution of this strategy must proceed simultaneously across several lines of operation. These include not only the provision of basic security for the Afghan people but also support for a political process characterized by consensus building, the development of participatory politics, good governance, and attention to political and economic concerns in the broader region. The strategy also depends on successful efforts to foster economic development in an impoverished and war-weary country with poor infrastructure, low literacy rates, and little recent economic integration with the rest of the world. This economic component is the least fully developed aspect of the American and NATO campaign to deny Afghan territory to non-state actors and to prevent the wider destabilization of Central and South Asia. Development and security, however, can be mutually supportive, and training people to create economic opportunities is a useful tool in countering insurgencies |
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April 2010 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-10) |
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Title from p.1 screen (viewed Apr 26, 2010) |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Adobe Reader |
Subject |
Afghan War, 2001-2021.
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Economic assistance, American -- Afghanistan
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Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan
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Economic assistance, American.
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Postwar reconstruction.
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Afghanistan.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lockhart, Clare
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Center for a New American Security.
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