Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Rebuilding Afghanistan Is That Post-conflict Reconstruction?

Since the end of the Cold War at least 116 armed conflicts have taken place (Kegley, 2006, p 401). These were mostly conflicts inside the states (civil wars) not conflicts between the states. During the same period United Nations Security Council launched more than 30 international military interventions (Dobbins, 2005) to resolve these conflicts. All these military interventions have mostly been successful in achieving their military goals; however, they ended up dealing with tasks which are normally run by the state civilian administration. Because there were no proper state administration, international military forces had to deal with nation building tasks or, in other words, to conduct post-conflict reconstruction in failed states. Resent examples of such international military interventions are Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, where initial military operations were successful and achieved their aims, but the aims of post-conflict reconstruction tasks that have been conducted for long time have not still been accomplished and success is in doubt.