{"product_id":"warlord-survival-the-delusion-of-state-building-in-afghanistan-hardback-9781501746420","title":"Warlord Survival; The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan (Hardback) 9781501746420","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWarlord Survival\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRomain Malejacq (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501746420\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 2 maps - 10 Halftones, black and white - 2 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalejacq gives us an extensive, in-depth vision of the political agency of warlords and how they manage to maintain their political authority even in highly challenging (geo)political scenarios. He brings an important and well-grounded interrogation to Western interventionist models of state-building. Moreover, his book has the potential of opening-up the readers' imagination to alternative constructions of political orders and broader perspectives on 'international actors', given his presentation of warlords' skilful diplomacies and strategies towards international politics.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding) \u003cp\u003eMalejacq's book impressively illustrates in meticulous detail how understanding warlords as limited to organising violence is a gross mis-representation of their skills and political adaptive potential.\u003c\/p\u003e (e-International Relations)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them?\u003c\/b\u003e How do they rise after each fall? \u003ci\u003eWarlord Survival\u003c\/i\u003e answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages, opposition leaders, diplomats, NGO workers, and local journalists and researchers, Romain Malejacq provides a full investigation of how warlords adapt and explains why weak states like Afghanistan allow it to happen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMalejacq follows the careers of four warlords in Herat, Sheberghan, and Panjshir—Ismail Khan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Mohammad Qasim Fahim). He shows how they have successfully negotiated complicated political environments to survive ever since the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan war. The picture he paints in \u003ci\u003eWarlord Survival\u003c\/i\u003e is one of astute political entrepreneurs with a proven ability to organize violence. Warlords exert authority through a process in which they combine, instrumentalize, and convert different forms of power to prevent the emergence of a strong, centralized state. But, as Malejacq shows, the personal relationships and networks fundamental to the authority of Ismail Khan, Dostum, Massoud, and Fahim are not necessarily contrary to bureaucratic state authority. In fact, these four warlords, and others like them, offer durable and flexible forms of power in unstable, violent countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Map of areas of relevance\u003cbr\u003e Map of Afghanistan provinces\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Why Warlord Survival?\u003cbr\u003e Warlords, States, and Political Orders\u003cbr\u003e The Game of Survival\u003cbr\u003e Ismail Khan, the Armed Notable of Western Afghani stan\u003cbr\u003e Dostum, the Ethnic Entrepreneur\u003cbr\u003e Massoud and Fahim: The Mujahid and the Violent Entrepreneu\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Beyond Warlord Survival\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685673070872,"sku":"9781501746420","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/warlord-survival-the-delusion-of-state-building-in-afghanistan-hardback-9781501746420","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}