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The final exam is scheduled for July 26, 2007. It is a comprehensive exam covering all the
material of this course.
This course was a study of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan.
The course was based on the premise that Afghanistan’s recovery from more
than two decades of war is in large measure dependent upon the country’s
reintegration into the international community. Reintegration, in turn, is
dependent upon the recovery of Afghanistan’s trans-border
infrastructure of communication, trade, transport, water, power and
investment. The course analyzed
regional economic cooperation in the South and Central Asian region in terms
of logic, institutions, actors, and expectations. The course addressed the
question of whether cooperation in Afghanistan’s circumstances is
most likely to emerge from a bottom-up consensus or most likely to be pulled
along by the locomotive effect of an expanding and progressively integrating
expansion of the trans-boundary infrastructure. The interaction of the policies of the
countries surrounding Afghanistan
is important. You are asked to
identify the following countries on this map
and briefly describe each of the countries in terms of population, government
structure, and economic development.
(50%)
Afghanistan
India
China
Pakistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Azerbaijan
Iran
Iraq
Qatar
Oman
The studio was the core of the course. In a logically structured essay, explain
what your role was in the sector group to which you belonged. Explain what your sector group’s goal
was. Was your group successful in
achieving its goal? Why or why
not? (50%)
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