|
EconStor >
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen >
DIIS Working Papers, Danish Institute for International Studies >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44703
|
| | |
| Title: | | Bandits, borderlands and opium wars: Afghan state-building viewed from the margins  |
| Authors: | | Goodhand, Jonathan |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIIS working paper 2009:26 |
| Abstract: | | The drugs economy has been an important part of the story of borderland transformation in Afghanistan. Because of drugs, borderlands are no longer marginal, but have become a resource to be exploited by the centre of the fragile state. This Working Paper explores the linkages between the drugs economy, borderlands and 'post conflict' state-building in Sheghnan, a remote district on the Afghan-Tajik border in the north-east Afghanistan. It does this through a fine grained historical analysis of Sheghnan. As such the paper argues that examining the frontier may throw light on processes of state formation, state collapse and 'post conflict' state-building. A focus on borderlands means taking seriously the 'politics of place' and examining the diffuse dynamics and localised projects that feed into and shape processes of state formation. |
| ISBN: | | 978-87-7605-354-3 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | DIIS Working Papers, Danish Institute for International Studies
|
| |
| | |
Download bibliographical data as:
BibTeX
|
| |
Share on:http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44703
|
Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|