CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS OF STATE-BUILDING IN AFGANISTAN
REPORT OF A STURY TRIP TO KABUL
Year: 2008
xii+132pp
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This volume is an outcome of a study trip undertaken by a team of researchers of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) to Kabul, in pursuit of research queries related to state-building in post-2001 Afghanistan. This study trip had a two-fold focus: to study the process of political, economic and social transition in Afghanistan and to explore the possibilities of constructive academic engagement between MAKAIAS and Afghan Institutes. It is a combination of a report and research papers of the team members and Afghan scholars an also contains important information on institutions and organisations in Kabul. Conceived to be an analysis of the challenges and dilemmas of state-building in contemporary Afghanistan this is also intended to be a guide to Afghan Studies.
Arpita Basu Roy is Fellow at the Maulana ABul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata. She has been working on Central and South Asia, with Afghanistan being the area of her specific interest since 2000. She has contributed several articles on population movement, gender issues, problems of transitional politics and regional cooperation to several research journals and edited books She has been an invited speaker at various national and international seminars and has visited Afghanistan twice. She is also the author of Afghanistan: Toward a Viable State (Delhi and London: Hope India Publications and Greenwich Millennium Press Ltd, 2002).
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