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[PAST EVENT] Session Block B: Mock Lecture B9: What we can learn about State-Building from the Afghanistan case
April 9, 2022
11:40am - 12:20pm
Location
Integrated Science Center (ISC), Room 1221540 Landrum Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
How did the U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan go from defeating the Taliban in 2001 to essentially handing the country back to the Taliban, in a chaotic withdrawal that we witnessed in August 2021? This lecture is a summary of a seminar I teach on “State Building in Afghanistan,” where students dig into different aspects of the West’s twenty-year engagement in Afghanistan to understand how $2.3 trillion in U.S. defense spending and 2,401 military personnel sacrifices failed to build a stable democracy. We will discuss our initial takeaways and lessons learned.