Episode 37: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Afghanistan and State-Building
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The Idiots of Afghanistan
In the west, president ashraf garney was praised because he was an ivy leaguer. He championed a rural development project that received two billion dollars in funding. The people of afghanistan saw it as similar to what the communists were doing. There was nothing democratic about what gani did at the local level. And that's a significant reason why the state collapsed,. People didn't trust the state at all.
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