Recovering the Frontier State: War, Ethnicity, and the State in Afghanistan

This book examines the prospects for rebuilding state and nation in Afghanistan with regard to "Operation Enduring Freedom" carried out by the international coalition. It starts off by delineating the conceptual basis of Afghanistan's status as a frontier state. Looking at geo-strategic aspects Afghanistan's position as an historical buffer between empires and its internal characteristics--weak authority structure, internal conflicts, interventions by neighbors, legitimacy of internal conqu...