Giustozzi, Antonio


Dr Antonio Giustozzi  

Department

Position held

LSE IDEAS

Visiting Fellow

Experience keywords:

insurgency and counter-insurgency; ethnopolitics; ethnopolitics; civil wars; warlordism; Afghanistan; Afghanistan; failed states; civil wars; warlordism

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Dr Giustozzi works on the security dimension of failed states and states in a critical situation. He also researches the political aspects of insurgency and warlordism and states' response. Recent additions to his fields of study are ethnopolitics and the study of administration building in recovering states. In recent years, he has mainly been working in and on Afghanistan.

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

Publications

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2011

Giustozzi, Antonio and Franco, Claudio (2011) The battle for the schools: the Taleban and state education. Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kabul, Afganistan

Giustozzi, Antonio and Isaqzada, Mohammad (2011) Afghanistan's para-military policing in context: the risks of expediency. Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kabul, Afganistan.

Giustozzi, Antonio (2011) Afghanistan: human rights and security situation. Landinfo, Oslo, Norway

Giustozzi, Antonio (2011) The art of coercion: the primitive accumulation and management of coercive power. Columbia University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 9780231702409

Giustozzi, Antonio (2011) Armed politics and political competition in Afghanistan. In: Berdal, Mats and Suhrke, Astri, (eds.) The Peace In between: post-war violence and peacebuilding. Routledge. ISBN 9780415609326

Giustozzi, Antonio and Reuter, Christoph (2011) The insurgents of the Afghan north. Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kabul, Afganistan

Giustozzi, Antonio (2011) Afghanistan: esiste un'exit strategy? CeMiSS, Rome, Italy

Giustozzi, Antonio (2011) Double-edged swords: armies, elite bargaining and state-building. Crisis States Working Paper Seies N.2, 86. Crisis States Research Centre, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2011) Restructuring the defence sector. In: Afghanistan’s security sector governance challenges. Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva, Switzerland.

2010

Giustozzi, Antonio and Ullah, Noor (2010) Tribes and warlords in southern Afghanistan, 1980–2005. In: Colas, Alejandro and Mabee, Bryan, (eds.) Mercenaries, pirates, bandits and empires: private violence in historical context. Hurst, London, UK. ISBN 9781849040884

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) Dilemmas of governance in Afghanistan: between patrimonialism and bureaucratisation. In: Schlenkhoff , Angela and Oeppen, Ceri, (eds.) Beyond the 'wild tribes': understanding modern Afghanistan and its diaspora . Hurst, London, UK. ISBN 9781849040556

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) The Taliban beyond the Pashuns. Center for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo (Ontario), Canada

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) The riddle of negotiations in Afghanistan. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Giustozzi, Antonio and Reuter, Christoph (2010) The Northern front: the Afghan insurgency spreading beyond the Pashtuns. Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kabul, Afganistan

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) Negotiating with the Taliban: issues and prospects. The Century Foundation, New York, USA

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) Nation-building is not for all: the politics of education in Afghanistan. Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kabul, Afganistan

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) Cycles of war and peace in Afghanistan: understanding the political economy of conflict. Crisis States Policy Directions. Crisis States Research Centre, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) Vers la retalibanisation de l’Afghanistan? Outre-terre, (24). pp. 175-187. ISSN 1636-3671

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) Between patronage and rebellion: student politics in Afghanistan. Briefing paper series. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul, Afghanistan

Masadykov, Talatbek and Giustozzi, Antonio and Page, James Michael (2010) Negotiating with the Taliban: toward a solution for the Afghan conflict. Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 2, 66. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) L'Afghanistan come il Congo. Afriche e orienti, 2010 (3-4). ISSN 1592-6753

Sanin, Francisco Gutierrez and Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) Networks and armies: structuring rebellion in Colombia and Afghanistan. Studies in conflict & terrorism, 33 (9). pp. 836-853. ISSN 1057-610x

Giustozzi, Antonio (2010) Ethnic groups and political mobilization in Afghanistan [los grupos étnicos y la movilización política en Afganistán]. Revista de Estudios Sociales , 37 pp. 30-45. ISSN 0123-885X

2009

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Afghanistan. In: Rubin, Barry, (ed.) Guide to Islamist movements. M.E.Sharpe, New York, USA. ISBN 9780765617477

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Novelty is in the eye of the beholder: understanding the Taliban in Afghanistan. In: Holmqvist-Jonsäter, Caroline and Coker, Christopher, (eds.) The character of war in the 21st century. Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 57-71. ISBN 9780415498326

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) The eye of the storm: cities in the vortex of Afghanistan's civil wars. Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 2, 62. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Afghanistan: the patrimonial trap and the dream of institution-building. In: Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) Persistent state weakness in the global age. Ashgate, Surrey, UK, pp. 69-82. ISBN 9780754676126

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Afghan presidential elections: a mirror of self-deception. LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Afghanistan: getting worse before getting better? Writenet, Geneva, Switzerland

Westad, O.A and Shea, Jamie and Giustozzi, Antonio and Pothier, Fabrice and Misra, Amalendu (2009) Afghanistan: now you see me? LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Afghanistan: now you see me?: the pygmy who turned into a giant: the Afghan Taliban in 2009. LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Empires of mud: wars and warlords of Afghanistan. Hurst, London, UK. ISBN 9781850659327

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) The Afghan national army: unwarranted hope? RUSI journal, 154 (6). pp. 36-42. ISSN 0307-1847

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Afghanistan: ‘friction’ between civilizations. In: Hansen, Stig Jarle and Mesøy, Atle and Kardas, Tuncay, (eds.) The borders of Islam: exploring Huntington’s faultlines, from Al-Andalus to the virtual Ummah. Hurst, London, UK. ISBN 9781850659723

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) One or many?: the issue of the Taliban’s unity and disunity. University of Bradford, Pakistan Security Research Centre, Bradford, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Book review: A. Sinno: organizations at war in Afghanistan and beyond. International affairs, 85 (3). ISSN 0020-5850

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Book review: Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi (eds.): the Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Journal of strategic studies, 32 (2). ISSN 0140-2390

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Afghanistan. In: Rubin, Barry, (ed.) Guide to islamist movements . M.E.Sharpe, Inc. ISBN 9780765617477

Giustozzi, Antonio, (ed.) (2009) Decoding the new Taliban: insights from the Afghan field. Hurst, London, UK. ISBN 9781850659617

Giustozzi, Antonio (2009) Empires of mud: the neo-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007. Columbia University Press, West Sussex, UK. ISBN 9780231700801

Giustozzi, Antonio and Orsini, Dominique (2009) Centre-periphery relations in Afghanistan: Badakhshan between patrimonialism and institution-building. Central Asian survey, 28 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 0263-4937

2008

Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Afghanistan: transition without end: an analytical narrative of Afghanistan. Crisis states working papers series 2, 40. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio and Matveeva, Anna (2008) The SCO: a regional organisation in the making. Crisis states working papers series 2, 39. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Afghanistan’s National Army: the ambiguous prospects of Afghanization. Terrorism monitor, 6 (9).

Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Bureaucratic façade and political realities of disarmament and demobilisation in Afghanistan. Conflict, Security and Development, 8 (2). pp. 169-192. ISSN 1478-1174

Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Shadow ownership and SSR in Afghanistan. In: Donais, Timothy, (ed.) Local ownership and security sector reform. Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 215-232. ISBN 9783825816520

Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Afghanistan: political parties or militia fronts? In: de Zeeuw, J, (ed.) From soldiers to politicians: transforming rebel movements after civil war. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, USA, pp. 179-204. ISBN 9781588265807

Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop : The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan. Columbia University Press, London, UK. ISBN 1850658730

2007

Giustozzi, Antonio (2007) War and peace economies of Afghanistan's strongmen. International peacekeeping, 14 (1). pp. 75-89. ISSN 1353-3312

Giustozzi, Antonio (2007) The missing ingredient: non-ideological insurgency and state collapse in western Afghanistan 1979-1992. Crisis states working paper series 2, 11. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2007) How the Taleban re-established themselves inside Afghanistan. In: Knyazev, Alexander, (ed.) Афганистан и безопасность Центральной Азии. Knyazev Foundation, Moscow, Russia.

Giustozzi, Antonio and Ullah, N (2007) The inverted cycle: Kabul and the strongmen's competition for control over Kandahar, 2001-2006. Central Asian survey, 26 (2). pp. 167-184. ISSN 0263-4937

Giustozzi, Antonio (2007) Auxiliary force or national army? Afghanistan's 'ANA' and the counter-insurgency effort, 2002-2006. Small wars & insurgencies, 18 (1). pp. 45-67. ISSN 0959-2318

Giustozzi, Antonio (2007) The privitazing of war and security in Afghanistan: future or dead end? Economics of peace and security journal, 2 (1). pp. 19-23. ISSN 1749-852X

2006

Giustozzi, Antonio (2006) Genesis of a prince: the rise of Ismail Khan in western Afghanistan, 1979-1992. Working paper series 2, 4. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio and Ullah, Noor (2006) "Tribes" and warlords in southern Afghanistan, 1980-2005. Crisis states working paper series 2, 7. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Rossi, Simonetta and Giustozzi, Antonio (2006) Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR) in Afghanistan: constraints and limited capabilities. Working paper series 2, 2. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2006) À qui est l’Afghanistan? Outre-terre: revue européenne de géopolitique, 16 (3). pp. 197-213. ISSN 1636-3671

Giustozzi, Antonio (2006) Afghanistan: exploring the peacebuilding potential of the private sector. In: Banfield, J. and Gündüz, C. and Killick, N., (eds.) Local business, local peace: the peacebuilding potential of the domestic private sector. International Alert, London, UK, pp. 208-230. ISBN 189870273X

2005

Giustozzi, Antonio (2005) The debate on warlordism: the importance of military legitimacy. Crisis States Research Centre discussion papers, 13. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2005) The ethnicisation of an Afghan faction: Junbesh-i-Milli from the origins to the presidential elections. Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 1, 67. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2005) Warlords into businessmen: the Afghan transition 2002-2005. In:Transforming war economies (16-18 Jun 2005 : Plymouth, UK).

Giustozzi, Antonio (2005) Afghan demobilisation masks continued militia resistance. Monitor, 4 (4). pp. 17-19. ISSN 1478-0089

Giustozzi, Antonio (2005) Conflicting intelligence clouds assessment of Iraqi insurgency. Monitor, pp. 14-16. ISSN 1478-0089

Giustozzi, Antonio (2005) Afghanistan: elezoni al buio. Afriche e orienti, (4). ISSN 1592-6753

2004

Giustozzi, Antonio (2004) 'Good' state vs. 'bad' warlords? A critique of state-building strategies in Afghanistan. Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 1, 51. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2004) Failed intervention in a failed state? The case of Afghanistan. In:The future of intervention: international colloquium (16-18 July 2004 : Berlin, Germany).

Giustozzi, Antonio (2004) Factional politics and state re-building in Afghanistan. In:The Crisis States Program seminar (29 Jan 2004 : London, UK).

Giustozzi, Antonio (2004) Poche sorprese in Afghanistan. Afriche e orienti, 3 pp. 105-110. ISSN 1592-6753

Giustozzi, Antonio (2004) The demodernisation of an army: northern Afghanistan 1992-1998. Small wars and insurgencies, 15 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 0959-2318

2003

Giustozzi, Antonio (2003) Respectable warlords? The politics of state-building in post-Taleban Afghanistan. Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 1, 33. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Giustozzi, Antonio (2003) Military reform in Afghanistan. In:BICC e-conference (4-11 June 2003).

Giustozzi, Antonio (2003) Re-building the Afghan army. In:State reconstruction and international engagement in Afghanistan. Joint CSP/ZEF (Bonn) symposium (30 May - 1 June 2003 : Bonn, Germany).

Giustozzi, Antonio (2003) Military reform in Afghanistan. In: Sedra, Mark, (ed.) Confronting Afghanistan’s security dilemma: reforming the security sector. Bonn International Center for Conversion, Bonn, Germany, pp. 23-31.

2000

Giustozzi, Antonio (2000) War, politics and society in Afghanistan, 1978-1992. C. Hurst and Georgetown University Press, London. ISBN 9781850653967

Giustozzi, Antonio The pigmy who turned into a giant: the Afghan Taliban in 2009. In: LSE IDEAS Strategic Update. , pp. 9-11.

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