The Rule of Law in Afghanistan

1. Introduction Whit Mason; Part I. The Scope and Nature of the Problem: 2. Approaching the rule of law Martin Krygier; 3. Deiokes and the Taliban: local governance, bottom-up state formation and the rule of law in counterinsurgency David J. Kilcullen; Part II. The Context: Where We Started: 4. The international community's failures in Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell; 5. The rule of law and the weight of politics: challenges and trajectories William Maley; 6. Human security and the rule of law: Afghanistan's experience Shahmahmood Miakhel; Part III. The Political Economy of Opium: 7. The Afghan insurgency and organised crime Gretchen Peters; 8. Afghanistan's opium strategy alternatives: a moment for masterful inactivity? Joel Hafvenstein; Part IV. Afghan Approaches to Security and the Rule of Law: 9. Engaging traditional justice mechanisms in Afghanistan: state-building opportunity or dangerous liaison? Susanne Schmeidl; 10. Casualties of myopia Michael Hartmann; 11. Land conflict in Afghanistan Colin Deschamps and Alan Roe; Part V. International Interventions: 12. Exogenous state-building: the contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan Astri Suhrke; 13. Grasping the nettle: facilitating change or more of the same? Barbara J. Stapleton; 14. Lost in translation: legal transplants without consensus-based adaptation Michael Hartmann and Agnieszka Klonowiecka-Milart; Part VI. Kandahar: 15. No justice, no peace: Kandahar, 2005–2009 Graeme Smith; 16. Kandahar after the fall of the Taliban Shafiullah Afghan; Part VII. Conclusion: 17. Axioms and unknowns Whit Mason.