Building State and Security in Afghanistan
LISD-WWS Study Series, Volume II

Building State and Security in Afghanistan is the second volume of the LISD-WWS Study Series.  The book is edited by LISD Director Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, with Robert P. Finn, LISD Senior Research Associate and former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan.  The book includes a foreword by Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and a preface by H.S.H. Prince Hans Adam II. of Liechtenstein.  It is available for downloading in pdf format (in full and by chapters) and for purchase through Labyrinth Books.

The study series is a joint publication project of Princeton University’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS). Each volume in the series presents fresh scholarship and timely analysis by academics and policy practitioners on a range of pressing international issues.  Content is based on work prepared for various meetings of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs, a private diplomacy forum sponsored by LISD. The first volume in the series, Perspectives on the Russian State in Transition, was published in 2006.

Praise for Building State and Security in Afghanistan:

“As Afghanistan is once again struggling with its old demons of internal strife and external interference, we are indebted to Wolfgang Danspeckgruber and Robert Finn for offering the refreshing insights of recognized experts. Policy-makers, scholars, students and the general public will all benefit from the different perspectives, critical analyses and collective wisdom assembled in this excellent volume.”
Lakhdar Brahimi, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan

“The topics discussed in this book will take the reader to the depth of key issues Afghanistan is currently facing which need to be addressed not only by scratching the surface but by going to the root causes. This is what this important book offers.”
M. Masoom Stanekzai, Advisor to the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

“This excellent volume seeks to explain why, despite the best efforts of the Afghans and the international community, Afghanistan has yet to fully recover from two and a half decades of conflict, while making a series of recommendations which, if implemented, would go a long way towards redressing some of the shortcomings of the Afghan process to date and speed up its successful realization.”
Ambassador Francesc Vendrell, EU Special Representative for Afghanistan