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Peter Galbraith

Evaluating Galbraith’s dissent

by Jon Western | 1 October 2009, 0242 EDT | | 0 Comments

Peter Galbraith is now officially out as Kai Eide's deputy in Kabul. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced Galbraith's recall/firing this afternoon after he received a letter of dissent from Galbraith about Eide's performance in investigating allegations of...

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Afghan Statebuilding

by Jon Western | 20 September 2009, 0156 EDT | | 0 Comments

I'm generally sympathetic to the letter from the IR scholars on Afghanistan discussed below -- though I am most certainly not a realist and I am not averse to statebuilding as a concept or as an...

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