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State Building in Afghanistan

Tue. March 12th, 2002

Anatol Lieven discuss his trip to Afghanistan and state-building efforts there. Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies, moderated the discussion.

Anatol Lieven, a British journalist, writer and historian, was previously editor of Strategic Comments and an expert on the former Soviet Union and on aspects of contemporary warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. In the late 1980s he was a correspondent for The Times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, wher he covered the closing stages of Soviet occuption and the start of the Afghan civil wars.

Recent work by Anatol Lieven:

Bridging the Afghan Gap, Financial Times, February 25, 2002

Rebuilding Afghanistan: Fantasy Versus Reality, with Marina Ottway, Carnegie Policy Brief Number 12

"Afghan Statecraft," Prospect, January 2002

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State Building in Afghanistan

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