Jaffe, SethArgentieri, FederigoYourish, Mohammad Fayaz2024-10-172024-10-172021Yourish, Mohammad Fayaz. "What are the legal, political and social challenges to governance that the Taliban face in forming a stable state, which would possess legitimacy and the capacity to provide services in the areas of security, combating corruption and reducing poverty in Afghanistan?". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/520Thesis (B.A. in Political Science, Minor in Business Administration)--John Cabot University, Fall 2021.Twenty years after being ousted by a US-led military coalition in 2001, the Islamic militant group of the Taliban are back in power for a second time in Afghanistan. But the question that remains is whether the Taliban are capable of governing Afghanistan, or will they fail like they did in their first rule. This thesis uses Karl Derouen and Shaun Goldfinch’s criteria of political stability to answer that question by examining the legal, political and social challenges that the Taliban face in forming a stable state in Afghanistan. The results offer evidence that possessing internal and external legitimacy, protecting Afghanistan against the regional security complexes, combating corruption and reducing poverty are the main challenges to governance that the Taliban face in their second rule in Afghanistan.iii, 40 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Qaida (Organization)TalibanThesis