Episode 100 – Warlords and State Building in Afghanistan, with Romain Malejacq

My guest today is Romain Malejacq, assistant professor at the department of political science at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. Romain studies civil war and political violence, with a particular focus on Afghanistan. He has written a book on Afghan warlords titled Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan (2019, Cornell University Press).

Follow Romain on Twitter: @Afghanopoly

Background readings:

• The past and future of Afghan warlords.
• Don’t expect Afghanistan to have a Western-style government. This explains why.
• Sahelistan? Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali.

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Music: ‘Pollution‘ by Dexter Britain (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)