Vanda Felbab-Brown

Brookings Institution

Guest

Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; author of Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs and Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-building in Afghanistan; former Adjunct Professor in Security Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service

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Preliminary results from Afghanistan’s runoff presidential election were released today.

Preliminary Results Reveal an Afghan President - But Will He Be Accepted?

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