...Ashley Jackson; Florian Weigand Afghanistan’s Taliban are back in power. How did they get there? How can their discriminatory policies be explained? And what can be done about it? The article looks back at the failure of international engagement in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021 and the dynamics...

... and an emergent public sphere that created space for democratic debate and cosmopolitan cultural expression. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 Afghanistan media public sphere culture authoritarianism Taliban In US foreign policy circles, there is a common sentiment...

...Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili The two-decade effort by the United States and its NATO allies to build a modern liberal state in Afghanistan envisioned electoral democracy replacing village councils and other forms of customary authority. But citizens still rely on these community-based bodies...

...Ashley Jackson; Florian Weigand The Taliban are no longer a shadowy insurgency; they are now a full-fledged parallel political order. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Ashley Jackson Florian Weigand Afghanistan Taliban...

...C. Christine Fair Unless the United States rights its policies with respect to Pakistan, it has no hope of bringing even a modicum of stability to Afghanistan … © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Christine Fair Afghanistan...

...Thomas Barfield What divides Afghans more than ethnicity or ideology is an unwillingness to share power and a winner-takes-all approach to politics. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Thomas Barfield Afghanistan civil war...

...C. Christine Fair If the international community wants to secure the real gains it has made in Afghanistan, it needs to stop obsessing about the troop drawdown and begin figuring out how to avert the funding drawdown that is the single biggest threat to Afghanistan's future. © 2015 Current...

...Michael J. Boyle Particularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, drones have stirred up new levels of hostility against the United States and endangered the stability and cooperation of the local governments, with potential long-term consequences for the stability of the South Asian region. © 2014...

...Shamila N. Chaudhary A spike in Sunni-Shiite violence, increasing collaboration between sectarian and insurgent groups, and US forces' drawdown in neighboring Afghanistan warrant a fresh review of counterterrorism strategy in Pakistan. Shamila Chaudhary Pakistan counterterrorism Afghanistan...

...William W. Finan, Jr. Three new books examine how it happened that, 12 years after going to war in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are preparing to withdraw from a nation still largely ungovernable and pervaded by corruption, warlordism, and insecurity. Afghanistan from the Cold...

...Sunil Dasgupta Managing New Delhi's participation in the Afghan endgame will be critical, and it will require a review of US-India policy in Washington. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Sunil Dasgupta India Afghanistan...

... Fair Pakistan madrasas terrorism education Islam India Afghanistan 135 [W]idespread acceptance of the purported ties between Islamic schools and militancy in Pakistan relies on a number of empirically flawed assumptions and assertions. . . . The Enduring Madrasa Myth C. ChrisTine fair...

...Thomas Barfield While many Afghans are highly ambivalent about the presence of foreign forces in their country, they fear a return to civil war even more. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Thomas Barfield Afghanistan Hamid...

... United States Al Qaeda Afghanistan intelligence drones Zia ul-Haq Osama bin Laden 141 Pakistani leverage over the United States is shrinking as fast as Washington s patience, and America is now traveling down a road toward containment The Broken US-Pakistan Relationship shashank Joshi...

...Robert Muggah; Albert Souza Mulli There are uncanny similarities between Rio de Janeiro's pacification strategy and ongoing counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Brazil Rio...

... Bush security Afghanistan strategy George Kennan democracy 19 The United States will have to get used to others saying no when Americans attempt to lead them. America s Outmoded Security Strategy DaviD B. Kanin anD steven e. meyer More than two decades have passed since the end...

... Obama into a long-term commitment to the war, the generals oversold the troop surge s potential. . . . Will America Lose Afghanistan Again? gary m. Bowman Spring has come to Afghanistan and in a few weeks, after the wheat, marijuana, and poppy crops have been planted, and the grape fields...

...Stephen P. Cohen The sense of being used, abused, and discarded now constitutes a central theme in Pakistan's ties to America. … © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Pakistan United States Soviet Union India Afghanistan cold...

...J Alexander Thier Even if all essential parties are interested in a negotiated settlement, getting to yes is no sure thing. © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan Hamid Karzai Taliban Pakistan United States Mullah...

...William W. Finan, Jr. A new book assesses the challenges facing America and its allies in Afghanistan. Many of the challenges are compounded by strategic errors committed by the Bush administration. In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan , by Seth G. Jones . Norton...