INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: Warlords

1. Defining Warlords
2. Afghan Warlords
3. Categories of Warlords
4. Warlordism
1. History of Warlordism
1. The Rise of Warlordism in the Cold War
2. The Role of Warlords in the Fall of the Taliban
3. Post-Taliban Phase
4. Establishment of Warlordism
5. International Contractors
6. Grievances
2. Elections
1. Presidential Elections 2004
1. Electoral data
2. Electoral violations
3. Undercurrents

1.3.2. Parliamentary Elections 2005

1.3.2.1. Electoral Data

1.3.2.2. Candidates

1.3.2.3. Candidacy Violations

1.3.2.4. Electoral Violations

1.3.3. Post-electoral development

CHAPTER 2: Violence and Profit

                  2.1. The Situation

                                    2.1.1. Resource Dependence

                                    2.1.2. New Commanders

                  2.2. Nexus

                                    2.2.1. Growing Poppy

                                    2.2.2. Income, Bans and Prices

                  2.3. Poverty and Illicit Economy

                  2.4. Poppy-eradication Programme

                  2.5. Addicted Economy

CHAPTER 3: Afghan Cultural Model

                  3.1. Qawm

                                    3.1.1. Types of Social Bonds

                                    3.1.2. Values

                                    3.1.3. Shifting Alliances

                  3.2. Customary Laws

                                    3.2.1. Shura

                                    3.2.2. Arbakai

                                    3.2.3. Jirga

                                    3.2.4. Equality and Honour

                                    3.2.5. Regulation of Violence

                  3.3. Traditional Origins of Warlords

                  3.4. De-regulation of Violence

CHAPTER 4: Democratization by Foreign Intervention

                  4.1. Democracy by Force

                                    4.1.1. Democratization as Security Policy

                                    4.1.2. Democratization as Ends or Means

                                    4.1.3. Mechanisms of Failure

                                    4.1.4. Economic Perspective of Foreign Interventionism

CHAPTER 5: Democratization without Illusions

                  5.1. State-building, Nation-building and Security

                  5.2. Democratization Paradigm

                                    5.2.1. Electoralist Democracy

                                    5.2.2. Post-conflict Elections

                                    5.2.3. Between Democracy and Autocracy

                                    5.2.4. Hybrid Regimes

                  5.3. Critique of Democratization

CHAPTER 6: Post-modernizing Afghanistan

                  6.1. The Symptoms

                  6.2. Models of Societal Interrelations

                                    6.2.1. Pre-modernity

                                    6.2.2. Modernity

                                    6.2.3. Post-modernity

                                    6.2.4. Post-modern Wars

                  6.3. Globalization and Dedifferentiation

                                    6.3.1. Commodification of violence

                                    6.3.2. Warfare, Welfare and Levelling of the State

                                    6.3.3. The Post-modern State

                                    6.3.4. Between War and Peace

                                    6.3.5. Post-modernizing Afghanistan

CHAPTER 7: Managing Militant Entrepreneurship

                  7.1. Elimination

                  7.2. Incorporation

                                     7.2.1. Unintended Consequences

                                     7.2.2. Taming Violence and Profit

CONCLUSION

ABBREVIATIONS

GLOSSARY OF AFGHAN WORDS

ILLUSTRATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY