Çatışma sonrası zorluklar ve Afganistan'da devletin inşası

The literature on state-building points to a requirement of an institution-building mission before liberal peace-building efforts. This narrative stems from the failure and some catastrophic results of such attempts in underdeveloped countries. Within the United Nations (UN) agenda, the "Brahimi Report" dated August 2000, is a milestone for such "integrated" state-building missions. However, some critiques questioned the concept for both its institutionalist reductionism and in the wider perspective the liberal peace building's Western footprints. Similarly, this study problematizes the internationalization of state-building. In fact, it is originally an endogenous political endeavor in which a leader either builds or re-builds state institutions in the aftermath of war-like crises. However, in the contemporary model, exogenous actors intervene for such an initiative. Depending on the Weberian legacy, policy literature also contributed a security perspective to the issue in that "failed" states diffuse international terrorism. Accordingly, the international community has initiated a post-conflict exogenous state-building in Afghanistan, in late 2001. Nevertheless, after two decades of intervention, it proved to be a state-building without building peace. Hence, this thesis aims to explore the reasons for the international community's failure to provide a critical component of state-building, that is legitimacy, as well as to envisage prospects of peace in the country's future. Arguing that the institutional reductionism fails to generate the non-material (societal) aspect of state-building, it specifically put that adaptation and centralization problems caused such failure in the Afghanistan context. Supported by the latest developments in Afghanistan, the findings of this study are noteworthy not only for the peace in the country but also for the future of state-building. Keywords: International state-building, Afghanistan, state-society relations, legitimacy.