Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afgahnistan after the Taliban and Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security; former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, who then settled in Afghanistan to work on economic development projects there; former special advisor to General Stanley McChrystal and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan
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