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How, despite the enormous investment of blood and money, has the West's ten-year intervention left Afghanistan so lawless and insecure? The answer is more insidious than any conspiracy, for it begins with a marked lack of understanding of the law - the very thing that most dramatically separates Western societies from those societies in which the West is increasingly intervening. This collection of essays argues that the rule of law is not a set of institutions that can be exported lock, stock and barrel to lawless lands, but a state of affairs in which ordinary people and officials of the state itself, feel it makes sense to act within the law. The book maintains that where such a state of affairs is absent, as in Afghanistan today, brute force, not law, will continue to rule. |
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