Afghanistan: what happened, why, what’s next – Prof. William Burke-White, One Day University

One Day University Special Report on Afghanistan

The Taliban is consolidating control of Afghanistan, 20 years after U.S.-led forces ousted it from power. The return of the Islamist fundamentalist group has been brewing for years, but its advance accelerated rapidly after the U.S. set an August deadline to pull out troops and began withdrawing air support for the now-fallen Afghan government’s forces. The details and “back story” to how all this happened are messy, fascinating, scary—and very much disputed.

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Presented by William Burke-White, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an international lawyer and political scientist, and a leading expert on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and international law.

William Burke-White, University of Pennsylvania

William Burke-White is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an international lawyer and political scientist, and a leading expert on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and international law.  Beyond Penn Law, Burke-White is a Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and serves as Senior Advisor to White & Case LLP.  From 2014-2019, Burke-White has served as the Inaugural Director of Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania’s new interdisciplinary international affairs institute.

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