Bibliograph

The rule of law in Afghanistan, missing in inaction, edited by Whit Mason

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The rule of law in Afghanistan, missing in inaction, edited by Whit Mason

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The rule of law in Afghanistan

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

724440018

Responsibility statement

edited by Whit Mason

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

missing in inaction

Summary

How, despite the enormous investment of blood and treasure, has the West's ten-year intervention left Afghanistan so lawless and insecure? The answer is more insidious than any conspiracy, for it begins with a profound lack of understanding of the rule of law, the very thing that most dramatically separates Western societies from the benighted ones in which they increasingly intervene. This volume of essays argues that the rule of law is not a set of institutions that can be exported lock, stock and barrel to lawless lands, but a state of affairs under which ordinary people and officials of the state itself feel it makes sense to act within the law. Where such a state of affairs is absent, as in Afghanistan today, brute force, not law, will continue to rule.--, Provided by publisher

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