Author: Saikal, Amin

Source: Third World Quarterly, Volume 27, Number 3, April 2006 , pp. 525-534(10)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

The International Security Assistance Force (isaf) deployed in Afghanistan has played a critical role in that country's transition. Without its security and peace-stabilising contributions, the government of President Hamid Karzai and its international supporters would, arguably, not have been able to move Afghanistan on a path of stabilisation and reconstruction. Yet the isaf has also suffered from certain shortcomings, arising mainly from policy differences and tensions between the USA and some of its nato allies. Even so, the isaf model is worth studying closely for future international deployments in other conflict zones.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436590600587812

Publication date: 2006-04-01

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