How Do You Govern Afghanistan?

Speaker: Dr. Hamish Nixon, The World Bank, Afghanistan

Subnational governance is a major focus of statebuilding, counterinsurgency, and development efforts in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's centralised state contrasts with its remote and diverse hinterlands, and its fragile and conflict-degraded administration struggles to overcome capacity-constraints, a complex aid environment, corruption and inefficiency to deliver basic services and development. Worsening insecurity and declining legitimacy make this challenge even more pressing as Afghanistan faces a second round of national elections, and a new US administration considers its strategy. An analysis of the pitfalls and successes in trying to extend governance subnationally over the past seven years provides some lessons for the future; foremost among these is to consider the urgent demands of facing continuing conflict and legitimacy within a more coherent framework and achievable vision for subnational statebuilding in Afghanistan.

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