Which series of events led to US final (and controversial) withdrawal from Afghanistan? Why there is so much fear of the Taliban "taking over" and ruling the territory? How foreign invasions and influence from British/USSR to US and China shaped the nation-building process in Afghanistan? Could there be "legitimate" non-Western systems of governance? Will there be a new humanitarian crisis or Afghan civil war? Has the international community "failed" the Afghan people, particularly women and girls? What will happen now?
An interview with Jose R. Rivera-Gonzalez, lecturer of International Studies and US Foreign Policy at the Universidad Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico and foreign affairs media commentator, on the history of nation-building in Afghanistan and the repercussions of foreign inversions and interventions.
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