nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210909-213957-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210909s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210909-213957-0 doi eng 342 23 Pasarlay, Shamshad Author aut Fatal Non-Evolution - Afghanistan’s 2004 Constitution and the Collapse of Political Order Pasarlay, Shamshad Verfassungsblog 2021-09-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Like all constitutions, the Afghan Constitution was imperfect. As is so often the case, its imperfections were necessary short-term fixes to settle immediate problems at the time of the constitutional founding. I will discuss two critically important features of the Constitution—ones that in 2004 were essential to ensure the short-term survival of the Afghan state, but which the framers themselves recognized would need to be modified in the medium to long-term. Over time, these once necessary but ultimately problematic elements in the Constitution remained uncorrected, impeded government performance and destroyed the popular legitimacy of the government. CC BY-SA 4.0 Afghan Constitution centralism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/fatal-non-evolution/ raw object