Destined to Fail: Democracy and State Building Experiment in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

This book studies the processes of nation-building employed in Afghanistan. It concludes that the sources of subsequent failure were located in an inherently flawed initial design. The linkage between democracy and 'stateness' were not developed and both processes suffered from a 'legitimacy deficit'. A one-volume historical and political science analysis of the state in Afghanistan before and after the US intervention.