The Challenge of Civil Service Reform: The Elusive Goal of Governance

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Challenge of Civil Service Reform

T2 - The Elusive Goal of Governance

AU - Afsah, Ebrahim

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - Why should we care about the quality of governance in one of the most peripheral societies on earth? Or for that matter, why should we care at all about anything that happens in Afghanistan, let alone consider these to be questions which require onerous input from us? More to the point of this chapter, even if we should answer these questions in the affirmative, is there anything we can do to bring about pos- itive change under the conditions prevailing there? The large and growing degree of unease about the decade-long international engagement in Afghanistan shows that Western publics do in fact ask these questions, and that they are increasingly dissatisfied with the answers they are given by their military-political elites.

AB - Why should we care about the quality of governance in one of the most peripheral societies on earth? Or for that matter, why should we care at all about anything that happens in Afghanistan, let alone consider these to be questions which require onerous input from us? More to the point of this chapter, even if we should answer these questions in the affirmative, is there anything we can do to bring about pos- itive change under the conditions prevailing there? The large and growing degree of unease about the decade-long international engagement in Afghanistan shows that Western publics do in fact ask these questions, and that they are increasingly dissatisfied with the answers they are given by their military-political elites.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-3-8329-6689-8

SP - 144

EP - 168

BT - Das internationale Engagement in Afghanistan in der Sackgasse?

A2 - Justenhoven, Heinz-Gerhard

A2 - Afsah, Ebrahim

PB - Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

CY - Baden-Baden

ER -