The longest and most expensive war in U.S. history is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. What impact has the nineteen-year-old conflict had on U.S. democracy? According to Benjamin Hopkins [1], the Afghanistan war has fundamentally damaged the social and political fabric of the U.S. Hopkins also describes what he calls frontier governmentality, the focus of his latest book [2]. (Encore presentation.)

Benjamin Hopkins, “The War That Destroyed America: Afghanistan’s Coming Bill” [3] Critical Asian Studies

Benjamin Hopkins, Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State [4] Harvard University Press, 2020

[1] https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/benjamin-d-hopkins

[2] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980709

[3] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14672715.2021.1875334

[4] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980709