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A mural of former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani at the airport named after his predecessor Hamid Karzai. In 2009 Dr Ghani co-authored a book entitled ”Fixing Failed States”, but he himself seems to have failed to learn the lessons outlined in his own book. Photo: Rahmat Gul/AP/TT
A mural of former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani at the airport named after his predecessor Hamid Karzai. In 2009 Dr Ghani co-authored a book entitled ”Fixing Failed States”, but he himself seems to have failed to learn the lessons outlined in his own book. Photo: Rahmat Gul/AP/TT

Here, Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics at MIT and co-author of Why Nations Fail, takes a closer look at the failed American attempt to build a functioning Afghan state.