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Democratic candidates are reflecting a generational indifference to foreign policy
Kurt Campbell on why Richard Holbrooke, architect of the Dayton peace accord, was haunted by Vietnam
The report contributes to the very perceptions it denounces, writes Philip Bobbitt
President’s tenure will be seen as a confused but well-intentioned pause in struggle with Islamism
Born during the 1995 siege, the city’s film festival now brings in 100,000 visitors a year
The west’s errors in Afghanistan – strategic, political and military – are too legion to list
The secretary of state is tackling a vast range of foreign issues
Richard Holbrooke’s book gives a fascinating insight into one of the true giants of postwar US foreign policy
After helping to modernise Afghanistan’s media, David Ensor is about to direct the Voice of America
Nearly a decade after the invasion, it is time for the west to learn from its mistakes and craft a realistic exit strategy
Ardent spirits such as Tony Blair forgot in their desire for moral clarity that the truth is rarely plain, and never simple, writes Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Travelled the world in a dizzying variety of diplomatic posts
Ahmed Rashid on the Afghan president’s new world view
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