State-Building in “the Graveyard of Empires”: Why the Soviet and United States Interventions Failed to Establish Stable Regimes in Afghanistan

Both the Soviet and United States military interventions failed in their respective efforts to establish stable regimes in Afghanistan, whose reputation for resistance to foreign occupation and state-building operations has earned it a near-mythical moniker: “the graveyard of empires”. This study e...

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Main Author: Kacper Grass
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Pablo de Olavide 2022-12-01
Series:Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político
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Online Access:https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/ripp/article/view/7407