World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues
Year : 2014, Volume : 18, Issue : 3
First page : ( 116) Last page : ( 138)
Print ISSN : 0971-8052. Online ISSN : 0974-0937.

Un involvement in Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Reconstruction

Kumar Suresh, Pant Meha

Online published on 1 November, 2014.

Abstract

Throughout history, Afghanistan has been beset by warlordism, internal strife and also subjected to foreign invasions. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was at the centre of the “Great Game” played between the Russian Empire and British India. In the late twentieth century the last Afghan War, which involved the mujahedeen with support from Pakistan, the US and other powers on one side and the Afghan communist government and the Soviet Union on the other, ended with the latter's withdrawal in 1989. In the mujahedeen and Taliban, the people of Afghanistan hoped for a future of peace and prosperity, rather than the hostility that was to come. In the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, international forces invaded the country. Although the Taliban were toppled within a month, much was left to rebuild and reconstruct. This paper delineates the reconstruction process in Afghanistan and the role of the United Nations as an institution which has time and again been appointed as a guardian of peace and development in the world

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