Author: Timor Sharan
This book maps out how political networks and centres of power effectively constituted the Afghan state, often with the complicity of the US-led military intervention and the internationally directed state building project.
It argues that politics and statehood in Afghanistan, in particular in the last two decades, including the ultimate collapse of the government in August 2021, are best understood in terms of the dynamics of internal political networks, through which warlords and patronage networks came to capture and control key sectors within the state and economy, including mining, banking, and illicit drugs as well as elections and political processes, according to a review on goodreads.com.
