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New. In August 2021, Taliban fighters entered the presidential palace in Kabul, ending twenty years of international efforts to build a democratic state in Afghanistan. Did the Taliban's success rest on coercion and violence alone, or did they win the battle for public support through ideology and better services? Or did most people in the country not believe in the idea of the state at all, trusting only local elders and traditional councils? What is the source of legitimacy during armed conflict? In Waiting for Dignity, Florian Weigand investigates legitimacy and its absence in Afghanistan. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, he examines the perspectives of ordinary people in Afghanistan as well as those of rival claimants to authority: insurgents, warlords, members of parliament, security forces, and community leaders. By exploring how different types of authority attempted to legitimize their rule, Waiting for Dignity challenges common assumptions about how to build legitimacy, such as by…
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Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan Paperback - 2022
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- Title Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan
- Author Florian Weigand
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2022-09-20
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780231200493 / 0231200498
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Taliban, Postwar reconstruction - Afghanistan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021059512
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.958
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