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Dr. Whitney Azoy has been involved with Afghanistan since 1971 as US diplomat, field anthropologist, refugee relief worker, scholarship director, reconstruction consultant, poetry translator, Pultizer nominee journalist, National Geographic filmmaker, four-time Fulbright grantee, and Center Director for the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies in Kabul. He is currently coproducing a documentary film entitled “Afghanistan: A Nation of Poets.”
Post-Buffer Afghanistan: A Nation-State Here to Stay?
Originally posted December 2009
Nation-states, like their citizens, have life spans. Some are short. The bumptious Republic of Texas, for instance, lasted only nine years before being absorbed by a larger and even more energetic United States of America. Yugoslavia survived intact for two generations and then fragmented into six parts, seven including Kosovo.
