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The rule of law in Afghanistan : missing in inaction /
"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 dra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511933585 0511933584 9780511930881 0511930887 9780511760082 0511760086 9780511928369 051192836X 0511853408 9780511853401 1107220696 9781107220690 1283054973 9781283054973 9786613054975 6613054976 0511932227 9780511932229 0511925859 9780511925856 |