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This book draws attention to the non-biological-political,
economic, societal and cultural-variables shaping both the
emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global
response to it, with a particular focus on political
decisionmakers' role in the domestic and international politics
surrounding the process of the pandemic. The book identifies the
strategic and underlying ethical failures of decision making, using
a process-tracing approach to reconstruct considerations, decisions
and actions by key leaders-interested in thus weaving a global
narrative of the response. The author highlights key speech acts,
and interprets the causal implications embedded in a chronological
and contextualised appraisal of events, statements and public
health measures. The book further discusses the normative ethics of
pandemic response, and presents lessons drawn from the present
experience. It also offers a normative analysis taking into
consideration pre-pandemic guidelines for response, including in
the literature of public health ethics and pandemic preparedness
plans.
This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF's
contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation
in Afghanistan; it offers an outline of the security situation in
Afghanistan and discusses geopolitical, historical, and military
factors that are related to it. It argues that a general underlying
factor is that although the stated goals of the Afghanistan mission
may be similarly formulated across the ISAF coalition, that are a
great number of differences in the nature of coalition members'
political calculations, and share of the burden, and that this
induces a dynamic of alliance politics that state actors attempt to
either mitigate, navigate, or exploit - depending on their
interests and views. The book asks why there are differences in
countries' share of the burden; how they manifest in different
approaches; and how the actual performance of different members of
the coalition ought to be assessed. It argues that understanding
this offers clues as to what does not work in current
state-building efforts, beyond individual countries' experiences
and the more general critique of statebuilding philosophy and
practice. This book answers key questions through a series of case
studies which together form a comparative study of national
contributions to the multilateral mission in Afghanistan. In so
doing, it provides a uniquely sensitive analysis that can help
explain coalition contributions from various countries. It will be
of great interest to students of Afghanistan, Asian politics,
peacebuilding, statebuilding, war and conflict studies, IR and
Security Studies generally.
This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF's
contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation
in Afghanistan; it offers an outline of the security situation in
Afghanistan and discusses geopolitical, historical, and military
factors that are related to it. It argues that a general underlying
factor is that although the stated goals of the Afghanistan mission
may be similarly formulated across the ISAF coalition, that are a
great number of differences in the nature of coalition members'
political calculations, and share of the burden, and that this
induces a dynamic of alliance politics that state actors attempt to
either mitigate, navigate, or exploit - depending on their
interests and views. The book asks why there are differences in
countries' share of the burden; how they manifest in different
approaches; and how the actual performance of different members of
the coalition ought to be assessed. It argues that understanding
this offers clues as to what does not work in current
state-building efforts, beyond individual countries' experiences
and the more general critique of statebuilding philosophy and
practice. This book answers key questions through a series of case
studies which together form a comparative study of national
contributions to the multilateral mission in Afghanistan. In so
doing, it provides a uniquely sensitive analysis that can help
explain coalition contributions from various countries. It will be
of great interest to students of Afghanistan, Asian politics,
peacebuilding, statebuilding, war and conflict studies, IR and
Security Studies generally.
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