Tag: Afghanistan
7 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Factoring Ethnicity in Taliban’s Quest for Legitimacy: An Anthropological Rewiring of the Power Structure
Introduction Security, stability, and prosperity in Afghanistan are essential for the region’s economy. The large-scale economic initiatives that run through Afghanistan,…
April 17, 2024
- Global Governance
Afghanistan’s Truncated Capacity to Respond to Natural Disasters: Isn’t it Time for the International Community to Step In?
The Disaster-Stricken Country A series of earthquakes in October 2023 in the Zinda Jan and Ghorian districts of Afghanistan’s western Herat province—with one reaching 6.3 on…
February 19, 2024
- Human Rights & Development
The Taliban and the Global Backlash Against Women’s Rights
The crisis in Afghanistan has largely disappeared from the news. It was pushed aside by the war in Ukraine and the humiliation and fatigue of Western countries whose twenty years…
February 6, 2024
- Conflict & Security
Afghan-Sino Relations: A Different Mindset. A Different Outcome?
Introduction For two decades, the Taliban and other rebel organizations have been the target of US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military operations in.…
January 17, 2024
- Dialogues
Preventing Genocide within Afghanistan from an Anthropological Framework, with Genocide Watch President Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
GJIA: The Ten Stages of Genocide came from your firsthand experience in post-genocide Cambodia and your professional career in the Foreign Service during the 1994 Rwandan.…
October 13, 2023
- Uncategorized
Why the United States Won’t Need Troops in Afghanistan After 2014
Since the Obama Administration is already considering either a “zero option”—whereby there will be no American troops after 2014—or an earlier withdrawal, General…
August 1, 2013
- Online Archive
President Karzai’s Wish List and New Delhi’s Strategic Volte-Face in Afghanistan
In this context, India’s lackluster responses to Afghanistan’s repeated requests for military hardware assistance, including one on Karzai’s wish list during his…
June 11, 2013