In 2006, at the London Conference on Afghanistan, the international community together agreed to the Afghan Compact identifying three critical and interdependent areas of activity to achieve the well being of the Afghan people: Security; Governance, Rule of Law and Human Rights; and Economic and Social Development. In its essence, this reconstruction framework contains all the principle elements commonly perceived as modernity. This article casts a look at some elements of Japan’s modernisation efforts and then examines parallels in the example of Afghanistan.
Birgit Hütten works at NATO HQ and studied Japanology at the University of Bonn.
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