Can the U.S. Win the War in Afghanistan?
By David Pierce - Nearly eight years into the war, the security situation in Afghanistan appears to be deteriorating at an increasingly fast past. Areas that were previously secured have been retaken...
View ArticleNATO's Dilemma: Asset Specificity and the Challenge of Securing Afghanistan
By Safwan B. Shabab - On the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's founding, Afghanistan provides a unique opportunity for the alliance to prove its strength beyond Europe and...
View ArticleSinging in the Wilderness: Kuchi Nomads in Modern Afghanistan
By Michelle Ker - The word kuchi conjures up a romantic but ultimately anachronistic lifestyle—tattooed women in red and gold embroidered dresses and men riding alongside flocks of goat and sheep; the...
View ArticleInfluence Operations as Counterinsurgency: A Strategy of Divisiveness
By Sam Worby - Since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, U.S. and coalition forces have found it difficult to win the "hearts and minds" of the civilian population. Like many other...
View ArticleObama and Afghanistan
By James Goldgeier - In his campaign for the American presidency, Barack Obama emphasized the “right war” in Afghanistan in order both to highlight the folly of the “wrong war” in Iraq and to establish...
View ArticleDay of Destruction, Decade of War: How Photographs Justified the War on Terror
By Tonei Glavinic - For many Americans, the date September 11, 2001 carries more weight than any other date in our nation’s history. It marks the beginning of a rapid sea change in American politics,...
View ArticlePrivate Security Contractors in Afghanistan as Third-Party Propagators:...
By Asad L. Asad - A public good is defined as a product or service that is both non-rival and non-excludable, meaning that one cannot withhold it from another without precluding all others from...
View ArticleTalking to 'Terrorists': Facilitating Dialogue with the Afghan Taliban
By Tobias Metzger - Section 2 analyses the current state of the conflict and places the conflict and its parties in the broader historical context. It explains Afghanistan’s lack of strong central...
View ArticleAccess to Education for Girls in the Rural Regions of Afghanistan Following...
By Innes Leighton - At present, ‘more than 80 percent of Afghan women are illiterate’.1 However, in the rural regions of Afghanistan, where more than 74 percent of the population lives, the illiteracy...
View ArticleBritain's 4th Afghan War
By Michael Clarke - British troops will be winding up their operations in Afghanistan by the end of next year. There may be other specialised things British troops will do thereafter, depending on what...
View ArticleCorruption and Graft in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
By Parag R. Dharmavarapu - With the departure of international forces and the exit of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan has entered a new age. While Afghanistan’s GDP has quintupled to $20 billion since 2002,...
View ArticleVision to Product: Inconsistencies in Theories Used in Failed Peacebuilding...
By Rick Bartoldus - This paper identifies and provides an initial analysis of the problem of mismatched theories in peacebuilding programs. This problem occurs when a project is developed by a group...
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