In April 1961, just months after the young John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, his reputation for expertise in foreign policy took a battering as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, a covert action against the Cuban government that collapsed within a matter of days. The collapse in Afghanistan that has flowed from current President … [Read more...] about Biden and America First
William Maley
About William Maley
Professor William Maley is Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University, and is author of Rescuing Afghanistan (2006), What is a Refugee? (2016), Transition in Afghanistan: Hope, Despair and the Limits of Statebuilding (2018), The Afghanistan Wars (3rd ed, 2021), and Diplomacy, Communication and Peace: Selected Essays (2021). He and Dr Niamatullah Ibrahimi are co-authors of Afghanistan: Politics and Economics in a Globalising State (2020).