The Afghan Ministry of Refugees: an Unruly Trainee in State Capacity Building

Scalettaris, Giulia

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique: Article original

DOI :

10.1080/01436597.2019.1662289

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/89353

Title :

The Afghan Ministry of Refugees: an Unruly Trainee in State Capacity Building

Author(s) :

Scalettaris, Giulia [Auteur]

Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales (CERAPS) - UMR 8026

Journal title :

Third World Quarterly

Volume number :

Pages :

151-167

Publication date :

2020

ISSN :

0143-6597

English keyword(s) :

Afghan state
state building
UNHCR
hegemony
resistance
international refugee law

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique

English abstract : [en]

This article looks at the interactions between the officials of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)’s mission in Afghanistan and the heads of the Afghan Ministry of Refugees in the mid-2000s. It ...
Show more >This article looks at the interactions between the officials of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)’s mission in Afghanistan and the heads of the Afghan Ministry of Refugees in the mid-2000s. It examines the rationales that guide officials at both the UNHCR and the ministry, as a way of unpacking the politics of state capacity building in post-2001 Afghanistan. The first section looks at the tense relationship between the two bodies from the point of view of UN officials, who strive to redress a ministry portrayed as ‘incapable’. By looking in turn at the fundaments of the political legitimacy of the Afghan state, at how international intervention transforms the Afghan political arena, and at Afghanistan’s position in global power relations, the following sections identify three rationales that can be ascribed to ministry officials, namely reconciling internal and external state legitimacy, strategic resource tapping and resistance to inter-state hegemony. From its standpoint at the juncture between an ‘external’ and a ‘local’ institution, the article ultimately stresses the importance of gaining epistemological distance from the peace building project in order to consider ‘local’ actors as full political actors.Show less >

Language :

Français

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS

Collections :

Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales (CERAPS) - UMR 8026

Submission date :

2023-11-08T11:27:05Z
2023-11-13T13:45:45Z

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