Missionaries of Modernity: Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony in Afghanistan and Beyond
Missionaries of Modernity: Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony in Afghanistan and Beyond
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现代性传教士：咨询团和阿富汗及其他地区的霸权斗争
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2016
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A. Giustozzi
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作者：
A. Giustozzi
那些在21世纪机构环境中工作的人--无论是企业、学术界、非政府组织还是国际组织--都面临着新的报告负担，因为不断发展的“评估”规则要求收集新的项目文档和解释。然而，从历史上看，在最好的时候，国际大国及其重要部委的领导注意力更多地集中在更大的战略和紧迫的危机上。几十年来，机构建设往往优先于行政清算，甚至是基本的问责制。今天，在国际社会参与阿富汗事务15年之后，已经开始出现许多书籍和研究报告，追踪个人、组织、国家和国际的叙述以及对紧急反应、高度意图和最终未实现结果的早期评估。外交官、士兵、分析家、顾问、承包商和活动家都发表了他们的故事。几乎所有的评论都包含了各种各样的批评，为什么在2001年9月之后，对阿富汗的特定任务只取得了部分成功，挣扎，妥协，或失败。到2016年底，阿富汗仍在继续斗争。国家建设计划已经达到了许多极限。跨国意识形态和毒品交易继续恶化，
Those working within 21 century institutional contexts — whether corporate, academic, nongovernmental, or international — have faced new burdens of reporting as the evolving rubrics of “assessment” have demanded new collections of program documentation and explanation. Yet historically, at the best of times, great international powers and their important ministries have had leadership attention more focused on larger strategies and immediate crises. Over decades, institution-building has often taken priority over administrative reckoning and even basic accountability. Today, after 15 years of international involvement in Afghanistan, numerous books and studies have begun to emerge tracing personal, organizational, national, and international narratives and early assessments of emergency response, high intention, and ultimately unrealized outcomes. Diplomats, soldiers, analysts, advisers, contractors, and activists have published their stories. Almost all have included various critiques of why after September 2001 particular missions to Afghanistan succeeded only partially, struggled, were compromised, or failed. By late 2016 Afghanistan continued to struggle. The state-building project had reached numerous limits. Transnational ideologies and drug trading continued to dis-