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Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture: The case for a light footprint: Rethinking the international project in Afghanistan
Speaker: Astri Suhrke
More than eight years after the US-led intervention in Afghanistan in October 2001, assessments of the international mission to neutralize the Taliban and reform the country’s social, economic and political institutions are almost universally grim. Until now, attempts to redress the situation have mostly meant more of the same - more international capital, consultants and troops, and tightened conditionality - rather than a recast of policy. Yet the lack of progress suggests the existence of fundamental constraints that a more intrusive international presence cannot overcome but probably worsens. There are also domestic constraints within the principal NATO countries and signs that a long-term military involvement in Afghanistan on the present scale is politically impossible. It is therefore time to revive a ‘light footprint’ strategy of the kind that UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi advocated in 2001.
Event details
| Date | 17 March 2010 |
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| Time | 6.30pm |
| Location | Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery, SOAS |
Contact details
| Name | Centres and Programmes Office |
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| Telephone | +44 (0)20 7898 4892 /3 |
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