March 18, 2005

In Building Nations, Establish Security, Then Democracy

By KIMBERLY MARTEN

The international community, led by the United States and its European allies, has been eager to paint the presidential election in Afghanistan last fall as a success story. As expected, the election resulted in a victory for the incumbent transitional leader, Hamid Karzai. The vote had great symbolic importance, since it marked the first time in three decades that the citizens of Afghanistan had gone to the polls. It has been portrayed as a step on the path to re-establishing

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