Snapshots of an Intervention
The Unlearned Lessons of Afghanistan’s Decade of Assistance (2001–11)
Martine van Bijlert and Sari Kouvo (editors)
Contents
Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………. vii
Martine van Bijlert
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………. xi
Martine van Bijlert
Overview ………………………………………………………………………………………………… xiii
PART I. BUILDING POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
Thomas Ruttig
The Failure of Airborne Democracy …………………………………………………………………3
Anders Fänge
The Emergency Loya Jirga ……………………………………………………………………………13
Scott Seward Smith
The 2004 Presidential Elections in Afghanistan………………………………………………..19
Catinca Slavu
External Voting for Afghanistan’s 2004 Presidential Election………………………………27
Marvin G Weinbaum
Toward a More Effective Parliament?…………………………………………………………….35
Sari Kouvo
A Plan without Action………………………………………………………………………………….41
Shahmahmood Miakhel
A Brief Overview of the Afghanistan Stabilisation Program ………………………………..47
PART II. STRENGTHENING THE SECURITY FORCES
Steve Brooking
Early ISAF………………………………………………………………………………………………….57
Antonio Giustozzi
The Afghan National Army …………………………………………………………………………..63
Eileen Olexiuk
20–20 Hindsight…………………………………………………………………………………………67Contents
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Mathieu Lefèvre
The Afghanistan Public Protection Program and the Local Defence Initiatives……….73
Joanna Buckley
Building the Police through the Focused District Development Programme ………….81
Steve Brooking
Private Security Companies in Afghanistan, 2001–11………………………………………..91
PART III. HOW THE AID ARCHITECTURE WORKED
Anja de Beer
Afghanistan’s Early Aid Architecture and How It Has Changed …………………………101
Ann Wilkens
National Prestige Is Big – Even for Small Countries …………………………………………107
Nick Horne
Throwing Money at the Problem…………………………………………………………………111
Hamish Nixon
The ‘Subnational Governance’ Challenge and the
Independent Directorate of Local Governance……………………………………………….117
Jolyon Leslie
Urban Recovery, or Chaos? ………………………………………………………………………..125
Jennifer McCarthy
Questioning the NSP …………………………………………………………………………………131
Frauke de Weijer
Capacity Building in MRRD …………………………………………………………………………139
Royce Wiles
Trophy Libraries and Strategic Opacity…………………………………………………………145
Andrew Pinney
An Afghan Population Estimation ………………………………………………………………..153
Holly Ritchie
Beyond the Value Chain Model …………………………………………………………………..161
Doris Buddenberg
Crop Substitution and Narcotics Control, 1972–2010………………………………………173
Heather Barr
Settling for Nothing…………………………………………………………………………………..181
Hat Tip to Dave Maxwell