The Afghanistan challenge : hard realities and strategic choices / edited by Hans-Georg Ehrhart, Charles Pentland

Introduction / Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Charles C. Pentland -- Assessing the Afghanistan Compact: Is the International Community Defaulting on the Compact or Is the Compact the Wrong Approach? / Citha D. Maass -- Changing Face of Warlordism in Afghanistan / Conrad Schetter and Rainer Glassner -- Supporting the State, Depleting the State: Estranged State-Society Relations in Afghanistan / Florian P. Kuhn -- NGO Myths, Realities, and Advocacy on the International Strategy in Afghanistan / Lara Olson and Andrea Charron -- Building Stability in Afghanistan / Mihai P. Carp -- Pakistan's Afghanistan Policy in the Shadow of India / Christian Wagner -- Iran's Influence in Afghanistan / Janet Kursawe -- International Commitment in Afghanistan: Failure or Strategy Change? A Strategic Assessment / Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Roland Kaestner -- No Exit: Canada and the "War without End" in Afghanistan / Kim Richard Nossal -- Afghanistan and the Limits of "Unlimited Solidarity"; A Farewell to Schicksalsgemeinschaft / David G. Haglund -- Canada in Afghanistan: Strategic Perspectives / M.D. (Mike) Capstick -- Construction of a War / Christoph Reuter -- Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan: The Canadian Approach / David M. Law -- Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan: The German Approach / Michael Brzoska.