Policing Afghanistan : the politics of the lame leviathan / Antonio Giustozzi and Mohammed Isaqzadeh.

This is a study of a police force in a developing country that is also undergoing a bitter internal conflict, further to the post-2001 external intervention in Afghanistan. It discusses the evolution of the country's police through its various stages but focuses in particular on the last decade...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online)
Main Authors: Giustozzi, Antonio (Author), Isaqzadeh, Mohammad (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Summary:This is a study of a police force in a developing country that is also undergoing a bitter internal conflict, further to the post-2001 external intervention in Afghanistan. It discusses the evolution of the country's police through its various stages but focuses in particular on the last decade. The chapters review the ongoing debates over the future shape of Afghanistan's police, but seek primarily to analyse the way Afghanistan is policed relative to its existing social, political, and international constraints.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199388042 (ebook)
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199327942.001.0001
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 23, 2014)