"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development" exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID's work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and sustainability of donor investments.

Avideh K. Mayville is a program manager, researcher and leader with over a decade of experience across non-profits, think tanks and higher education institutions. Her areas of speciality include globalization and development policy, development in conflict environments (specifically Central Asia), the security-development nexus and transnational militancy.

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1. Introduction; 2. Development Agendas and Donor Spaces: How Capacity Gained Salience; 3. Capacity in Development Policy and Practice: The Quest for Performance Excellence in the Governance of Disabling Environments; 4. Capacity and Fragility: The Sociological Framework for the Capacity Project and Developing "Fragile" States; 5. The Capacity Project in "Afpak": Development Experiments, Subnational Spaces and Transnational Networks; 6. The Battle for Power in Disabling Environments: Statecraft and Developing Capacity in Afghanistan and Pakistan; 7. Developing Capacity to Manage Global Threats: Statemaking, the Militarizing of Development, and Human Rights Approaches; References; Index.