Afghanistan Mission - The Last Remaining Remains

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In a recent peace you wrote that the west are gripped by this unshakable nestalgia for a bygone era and upset about the return of brutal political competition. I think there was sunny house that people felt was maybe left behind in hammed cars international arport. The afghan mission was the sort of last remnant of that dream. Ande the troops left afghanistan, what one could see is that though we were meant to be ending the forever wars, it wasn't peace that was going to come in its wake. Instead, it was a much more brutal competition between china and America.

A more interconnected world was supposed to bring us closer together, but Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, says the opposite has occurred. He joins Carl Miller to discuss his new book The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict, which argues that technology and a lack of joined up thinking is affecting communication on every level. From standoffs between nation states to individuals hurling insults on social media, Mark identifies how connectivity is being mismanaged and exploited during an era in which defining narratives are ever more elusive to pin down. To find out more about the book click here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-age-of-unpeace/mark-leonard/9780552178273

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