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20 YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN: WHAT HAPPENED?
A new <a href='https://soundcloud.com/tags/BattleFest'>#BattleFest</a> recording from the Battle of Ideas festival 2021: <a href='https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/20-years-in-afghanistan-what-happened/'>https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/20-years-in-afghanistan-what-happened/</a>
With the withdrawal of Western forces now complete, will 20 years of Western-led occupation and the promotion of liberal-democratic values have an impact on the future of Afghanistan, or will conservative, religious values predominate? Has military intervention and nation-building had a small, but positive impact or was attempting to impose democracy from above simply a doomed act of Western hubris?

#BattleFest2021: A ’nudge’ too far? The rise of behavioural science and technocratic rule

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