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Decentralization

• 08.09.09
  Wanted: Decentralization Skills
  Decentralization (0)

  Seth G. Jones writes in the WSJ ("Going Local: The Key to Afghanistan : The U.S.’s strategy of building a centralized state is doomed to fail in a land of tribes") that the U.S. is making a mistake in Afghanistan by acting as though there is (or should be) a central authority to deal with. The Soviets made the same mistake. It's understandable that a highly centralized government like that of the Soviet Union would do that. But what excuse if there for the U.S., which supposedly is itself much more decentralized -- a federal system with greater levels ...