TY  - BOOK
AU  - JACK Alex
TI  - The political economy of Afghan stability
PY  - 2012///
KW  - AFGHANISTAN
KW  - TALIBAN
KW  - NATO
N2  - Much of 2012 has so far only offered setbacks in the Afghan state-building project. Preliminary peacetalks and the hope that the Taliban could establish an office in Qatar, have been quashed by the Taliban's refusal to open dialogue with the Afghan government. Nevertheless, the NATO powers have remained committed their 2014 timetable and have sought to protect the nation's democratic and institutional gains while using the language of transition and enhanced Afghan sovereignty
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