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Tomorrow morning I will board a flight to Santa Fe in New Mexico. I am expecting to land in a Wild West-style landscape, which seems to me particularly well suited for a conference on US foreign policy on Afghanistan. 'Foreign policy as a complex system' is the topic of this exclusive working group meeting, with the purpose of informing the United States government on its foreign and development policy in Afghanistan. So one may rightfully wonder what I, as a Dutch citizen, am doing in this c...