Patterns of Unhealthy Economic Policy
03/08/22 • 30 min
In this episode I will discuss the emergence of unhealthy economic policy in Afghanistan under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations.
Sources:
“Civilian Deaths from Afghan Conflict in 2018 at Highest Recorded Level – UN Report.” UNAMA, November 26, 2019. https://unama.unmissions.org/civilian-deaths-afghan-conflict-2018-highest-recorded-level-%E2%80%93-un-report.
Crook, John R. 2012. "United States, Afghanistan Conclude Agreement on their Long-Term Relationship." The American Journal of International Law 106 (3) (07): 649-650.
“Global War on Terror.” George W. Bush Library. Accessed April 22, 2022. https://www.georgewbushlibrary.gov/research/topic-guides/global-war-terror.
Maddow, Rachel. “Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show.” MSNBC. NBCUniversal News Group, August 26, 2021. https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-8-26-21-n1277772.
“President Trump’s Afghanistan Policy: Hopes and Pitfalls.” Accessed April 23, 2022. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/afghanistan_hopes_pitfalls.pdf.
Reality Check. “Afghanistan: What Has the Conflict Cost the US and Its Allies?” BBC News. BBC, September 3, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47391821.
“Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Records Administration. Accessed April 22, 2022. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-address-nation-way-forward-afghanistan-and-pakistan.
Sopko, John F, and Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. “Sigar 16-58-LL Corruption in Conflict: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan,” September 2016. https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-16-58-LL.pdf.
Swenson, Geoffrey. 2017. “Why U.S. Efforts to Promote the Rule of Law in Afghanistan Failed.” International Security 42 (1): 114–51. doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00285.
“The Trump Administration's Afghanistan Policy.” Crisis Group, March 9, 2021. https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-asia/afghanistan/trump-administrations-afghanistan-policy.
“U.S. Officials Admit to Fueling Corruption in Afghanistan by Flooding the Country with Money - and Then Turned a Blind Eye.” The Washington Post. WP Company, December 9, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-corruption-government/.
The Visual Journalism. “In Numbers: How Has Life Changed in Afghanistan in 20 Years?” BBC News. BBC, August 16, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57767067.
In this episode I will discuss the emergence of unhealthy economic policy in Afghanistan under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations.
Sources:
“Civilian Deaths from Afghan Conflict in 2018 at Highest Recorded Level – UN Report.” UNAMA, November 26, 2019. https://unama.unmissions.org/civilian-deaths-afghan-conflict-2018-highest-recorded-level-%E2%80%93-un-report.
Crook, John R. 2012. "United States, Afghanistan Conclude Agreement on their Long-Term Relationship." The American Journal of International Law 106 (3) (07): 649-650.
“Global War on Terror.” George W. Bush Library. Accessed April 22, 2022. https://www.georgewbushlibrary.gov/research/topic-guides/global-war-terror.
Maddow, Rachel. “Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show.” MSNBC. NBCUniversal News Group, August 26, 2021. https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-8-26-21-n1277772.
“President Trump’s Afghanistan Policy: Hopes and Pitfalls.” Accessed April 23, 2022. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/afghanistan_hopes_pitfalls.pdf.
Reality Check. “Afghanistan: What Has the Conflict Cost the US and Its Allies?” BBC News. BBC, September 3, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47391821.
“Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Records Administration. Accessed April 22, 2022. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-address-nation-way-forward-afghanistan-and-pakistan.
Sopko, John F, and Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. “Sigar 16-58-LL Corruption in Conflict: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan,” September 2016. https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-16-58-LL.pdf.
Swenson, Geoffrey. 2017. “Why U.S. Efforts to Promote the Rule of Law in Afghanistan Failed.” International Security 42 (1): 114–51. doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00285.
“The Trump Administration's Afghanistan Policy.” Crisis Group, March 9, 2021. https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-asia/afghanistan/trump-administrations-afghanistan-policy.
“U.S. Officials Admit to Fueling Corruption in Afghanistan by Flooding the Country with Money - and Then Turned a Blind Eye.” The Washington Post. WP Company, December 9, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-corruption-government/.
The Visual Journalism. “In Numbers: How Has Life Changed in Afghanistan in 20 Years?” BBC News. BBC, August 16, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57767067.
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Sources:
Dormandy, Xenia and Michael Keating. 2014. "The United States and Afghanistan: A Diminishing Transactional Relationship." Asia Policy (17) (01): 6-12.
“Global War on Terror.” George W. Bush Library. Accessed April 22, 2022. https://www.georgewbushlibrary.gov/research/topic-guides/global-war-terror.
Lansford, Tom. 2003. A Bitter Harvest : US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan. Florence: Taylor & Francis Group. Accessed February 3, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Riedel, Bruce. 2014. What We Won : America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 197989. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press. Accessed February 4, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, and John F Sopko. “What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction.” Sigar 21-46-LL , August 2021. https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-21-46-LL.pdf.
“Timeline: U.S. War in Afghanistan.” Council on Foreign Relations. Council on Foreign Relations. Accessed April 22, 2022. https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-war-afghanistan.
Next Episode
Sustainability and Oversight
In this episode I will delve into US efforts at creating sustainable programs and institutions in Afghanistan. I will also look at the problem of oversight and how the lack of oversight helped enable corruption.
Sources:
“Afghanistan Partnership Framework 2020 - UM.” Accessed April 23, 2022. https://um.fi/documents/35732/0/Afghanistan+Partnership+Framework+2020.pdf/6875b99d-0223-b5e1-360d-614420af2a90?t=1606127229249.
Ayotte, Kelly A, Joseph F Dunford Jr., and Nancy Lindborg. “Afghan Study Group Final Report.” https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/afghanistan_study_group_final_report_a_pathway_for_peace_in_afghanistan.pdf, February 2021.
Crook, John R. 2012. "United States, Afghanistan Conclude Agreement on their Long-Term Relationship." The American Journal of International Law 106 (3) (07): 649-650.
DeYoung, Karen. “Afghan Nation-Building Programs Not Sustainable, Report Says.” The Washington Post. WP Company, June 7, 2011. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/afghan-nation-building-programs-not-sustainable-report-says/2011/06/07/AG5cPSLH_story.html.
Shackelford, Crisanna L. 2014. "Propositional Analysis, Policy Creation, and Complex Environments in the United States' 2009 Afghanistan-Pakistan Policy." Order No. 3669549, Walden University.
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, and John F Sopko. “What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction.” Sigar 21-46-LL , August 2021. https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-21-46-LL.pdf.
Sopko, John F, and Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. “Sigar 16-58-LL Corruption in Conflict: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan,” September 2016. https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-16-58-LL.pdf.
Swenson, Geoffrey. 2017. “Why U.S. Efforts to Promote the Rule of Law in Afghanistan Failed.” International Security 42 (1): 114–51. doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00285.
WALDMAN, MATT. “System Failure: The Underlying Causes of US Policy-Making Errors in Afghanistan.” International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) 89, no. 4 (2013): 825–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23479396.
“Wasteful Spending and Half-Baked Ideas: U.S. Officials Reveal How Massive Rebuilding Projects in Afghanistan Backfired.” The Washington Post. WP Company, December 9, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-nation-building/.
Watson, Eleanor. “20-Year U.S. Effort in Afghanistan ‘Marked by Many Failures," New Oversight Report Finds.” CBS News. CBS Interactive, August 17, 2021. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-failures-20-years-oversight-report/.
“Widespread Corruption in Afghanistan under US Occupation Surfaces.” The Express Tribune, October 12, 2021. https://tribune.com.pk/story/2324482/widespread-corruption-in-afghanistan-under-us-occupation-unearthed.
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