Abstract
This thesis is a qualitative single-case study of emergence and consolidation of a so-called “warlord democracy” in Afghanistan, a formally democratic regime where violence predominantly serves as a trump in economic, political and social contracts. A definition and typology of Afghan warlords as military entrepreneurs is developed. Five enabling conditions of militant entrepreneurship are explained: the socio-historical and economic conditions, the regime imposition by a foreign military intervention, the democratic transitional paradigm limited to institution-building, and the global phenomenon of fusion of post-modern warfare and gain maximization. The thesis shows the contexts of development and specific mechanisms of the five enabling conditions, which contrary to the expectations of their theoretical framework or the paradigms whence they stem from, consistently contributed to the creation, institutionalization and legitimization of a warlord democracy in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Creation of a Warlord Democracy
Ch. 3: The Afghan Cultural Model
Ch. 4: Democratization by Foreign Intervention
Ch. 5: Democratization without Illusions
Ch. 6: Post-modernizing Afghanistan
Ch. 7: Managing Militant Entrepreneurship
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