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Research Director for Policy Process
Email: andrew.wilder@tufts.edu
Wilder joined the Feinstein Center in January 2007 to lead the Center's research on Politics and Policy in countries affected by conflict. Andrew's areas of interest include state-building, governance, and aid-effectiveness, with a specialization on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prior to joining the Center he worked in Afghanistan where he established and was the Director of Afghanistan's first independent policy research institution, the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). Between 1986 and 2001, Andrew worked for several different international NGOs managing humanitarian and development programs in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including for six years as the Director of the Pakistan/Afghanistan program of Save the Children (US). He is the author of The Pakistani Voter (Oxford University Press, 1999), a co-author of A Guide to Government in Afghanistan (AREU, 2004), and the author of several book chapters, journal articles and briefing papers. His recent research and publications have looked at police reform policies in Afghanistan, Afghan refugee education policy in Pakistan, the politics of civil service reform in Pakistan, electoral politics and policies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the politics of sub-national administration in Afghanistan. Andrew has a BSFS degree from Georgetown University, and a MALD and PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Andrew is the primary investigator for "Winning Hearts and Minds?" Understanding the Relationship between Aid and Security.
FIC Reports
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Book chapters
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Other Major Publications
FIC Reports
Humanitarian Agenda 2015 -- The State of the Humanitarian Enterprise
— Humanitarian Agenda 2015: The State of the Humanitarian Enterprise describes the challenges faced by humanitarian actors striving to maintain fidelity to their ideals in a globalized world. The report highlights persisting tensions in the relationship between "outsiders" and local communities, encroachments of political agendas - particularly as a result of the war on terror - and the deteriorating security climate for humanitarian workers on the ground. Humanitarian action, the authors argue, needs to be more in sync with the aspirations of the people it aims to help and more open to non-western humanitarian coping strategies and traditions. Talking "principally to the like-minded, shunning different or dissenting voices" ultimately undermines humanitarian principles and causes "misunderstanding, false expectations, and delusions of grandeur."
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Humanitarian Agenda 2015 -- Perceptions of the Pakistan Earthquake Reponse
— This Humanitarian Agenda 2015 study, "Perceptions of the Pakistan Earthquake Response," records the perceptions of both aid providers and aid recipients in the earthquake-affected areas of Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. In particular, Wilder examines perceptions regarding the following four issues: the universality of humanitarian principles, the impact of the War on Terror on the earthquake response, the role of the Pakistan Army in leading the response, and the security of humanitarian aid workers.
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Books
Book chapters
State-Building at the Subnational Level in Afghanistan -- A Missed Opportunity
— By Andrew Wilder and Sarah Lister. In Wolfgang Danspeckgruber with Robert P. Finn (eds.), Building State and Security in Afghanistan. Princeton: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, November, 2007.
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Subnational Administration and State Building -- Lessons from Afghanistan
— By Sarah Lister and Andrew Wilder. Chapter 12 in Derick W. Brinkerhoff (ed.), Governance in Post-Conflict Societies: Rebuilding Fragile States. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
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Elections 2002 -- Legitimizing the Status Quo
— By Andrew R. Wilder. Chapter 5 in Craig Baxter (ed.), Pakistan on the Brink: Politics, Economics, and Society. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004.
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Political Legitimacy in Pakistan -- The Two-Edged Sword of Islam
— By Andrew R. Wilder. Chapter 5 in Muhammad Aslam Syed (ed.), Islam and Democracy in Pakistan. Islamabad: National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, 1995.
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
The Politics of Civil Service Reform in Pakistan
— By Andrew Wilder. Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2009. 19-37.
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Cops or Robbers? The Struggle to Reform the Afghan National Police
— By Andrew Wilder. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007.
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Strengthening Subnational Administration in Afghanistan -- Technical Reform or State-Building?
— By Sarah Lister and Andrew Wilder. Public Administration and Development, 25, 1-10, 2005.
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A House Divided? Analysing the 2005 Afghan Elections
— By Andrew Wilder. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, December 2005.
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Free, Fair or Flawed -- Challenges for Legitimate Elections in Afghanistan
— By Andrew Reynolds and Andrew Wilder. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, September 2004.
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Subnational Administration in Afghanistan -- Assessment and Recommendations for Action
— By Anne Evans, Nick Manning, Yasin Osmani, Anne Tully and Andrew Wilder. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit and the World Bank, 2004.
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Changing Patterns of Punjab Politics -- A Comparison of the 1988 and 1993 National Assembly Election Results
— By Andrew Wilder. Asian Survey, April 1995.
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Other Major Publications
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