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- Title
Americas War on "Ungoverned" Space in Afghanistan.
- Authors
Roberts, Greg
- Abstract
The United States' war in Afghanistan has pursued the same policy goal for the last decade and a half: eliminating a terrorist safe haven and preventing its reemergence. Policymakers have understood terrorist safe havens to be "ungoverned spaces," a term that carries a strong presumption against non-state sources of governance. Operating within this conceptual framework, two presidential administrations have proved unable to change the realities of governance in Afghanistan decisively in the United States' favor. Flawed assumptions about "ungoverned" spaces have played an important role in America's failure to conclude the war successfully.
- Subjects
AFGHAN War, 2001-2021; WAR (International law); AFGHAN politics &; government, 2001-2021; UNITED States politics &; government, 21st century; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on counterterrorism
- Publication
SAIS Review of International Affairs, 2016, Vol 36, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
1945-4716
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sais.2016.0006